They're Not My Kids!!

I am enthralled by Bill de Blasio, New York's mayoral candidate.

This guy wants to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers so that all four-year-olds get city-funded full-day pre-kindergarten classes AND all middle-schoolers can participate in after-school extra-curricular programs!

And the wealthy are up  in arms....Oh. What. A. Surprise.

The wealthy cry foul when Joe and Jill Citizen want the meager $22,000-a-year spent on public school students (and that's the highest in the country) increased to $25,000-a-year though many of those crying foul have their children in private schools where tuition is in excess of $35,000-a-year.

I will be watching the New York mayoral race closely. Big Bill, all six feet five inches of him, could be the catalyst for a real public education reform movement. And I'm not talkin' about the Michelle Rhee toxic psuedo-reform kind of movement.

Grammar Guide

Came across The Grammar Guide site while looking for the correct usage of affect and effect, which for the most part I get right. But what caught my eye in the right hand column was the Quizzes section. I'm always a sucker for those. After a half hour of taking multiple quizzes I am embarrassed to say that I did not do as well as I thought I would. Sister Mary Albert would not be pleased.

Not sure if this is a useful resource for students or teachers but it was informative nonetheless. I find that I always learn something from taking quizzes like these. So just for fun I'm going to ask my granddaughter to try her hand on a few of these and see how she does. Maybe she'll pick up a thing or two!