I liked this episode. A few more odd balls, but still fairly positive.
Denver
*Lisa Tucker – Pretty little girl and sings really, really well. I
can’t tell if she is cocky or not. Skinny black girl with curly hair.
*Brett “Ace” Young – I didn’t really recognize his sign. He did
have good control I think. Ripped body, high voice.
*Rochelle Elaine Dye – Sang the Chain
song good, but I don’t know if it was really that impressive. Tall
black girl.
*Chris Daughtry – Not really knowing the song, it is hard to tell
how good he is, but I liked it. You could tell he had some skill.
Bald Rocker Guy.
*Heather Cox – Very pretty, she was a little flat on one note, I
thought, but good enough to get through.
*Garet Johnson – Cowboy guy. Very nervous, I think messed a word
up. Clear voice. Very dorky though.
Best
Lisa Tucker
Chris Daughtry
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The more I read and learn the more I still find amazing the people that say money doesn’t help schools. Even on the basic level of salary, people say more salary doesn’t increase the quality of teacher. Recently a letter said that if I pay the same teacher more money, will they be a better teacher? Well, the answer is obviously no. But, over time, if you pay teachers more money, better people will become teachers. Further, the better teachers will come to your district.
I am reading a book about the best practices in education and the ideas they have are very clearly excellent, but they require money to implement. Usually it involves hiring more teacher (hence lowering the student to teacher ratio) so that more individualized attention can be given. There are people out there that believe that class size doesn’t matter, but that is absurd. Reasearch and common sense contradicts that logic. This is very frustrating.
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I like the first episode. They didn’t focus on the negative as much as last year. Here are my thoughts on people.
Chicago
*The twins (Darrell & Terrell
Britenumm) – Sound good. Good personality.
*Gina – dental hygentist – sounds
good and is pretty
*Mandisa Hundley – Good touch. Soft
and powerful.
Christine Davis – Cute, but need to
age.
*Brooke Barretsmith – Strong voice
and powerful. Very short.
*Leah Barrettsmith – Started kind of
weak and then picked up. Good looking.
*Zachary Smits – Crooner with a laid
back surfer look. Not a big fan myself.
Crystal Parizanski – Not a big fan of
the tan. She did the growling thing too much. I can’t believe Simon
brought the mom in.
*Josh Simmons – Nice harmonies with
his brother.
*Jarrett Simmons – A little better
than his brother. I like his sweet high voice.
David Hoover – He wasn’t very good,
but Randy was dumb. Of course, Paula said yes, unbeleivable. Simon is
PISSED!
Best
Jarret Simmons
Mandisa Hundley
Leah
Barrettsmith
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I’ll be honest, I don’t like gray areas. I like situations that are black and white. Gray areas just confuse things. For instance, the spelling of the word gray. Some people spell it “grey”. Both are correct.
What prompted this little tirade was this week’s episode of the hit CBS show Numbers. In it a man who lived in a gang infested neighborhood started picking off gang bangers so that the streets would be safer. However, he didn’t just pick random gang members, he picked the ones that would cause the most retaliation. Meaning that his one murder would escalate into 4 more, hence lowering the number of gang members.
In some ways this is a good thing; there are less gang members. The question is, do the ends justify the means. The ends are clearly good, but do we want vigilante justice? Should this man be sent to jail, what was his crime? Killing bad people. Seems almost noble.
In the end, I feel that vigilante justice is bad, and that we have to enforce the laws, but the issue is very gray, and I don’t like that.
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