Simon's Cat

Simon's Cat is a funny series of cartoons involving a hungry cat. Here's the first one: http://www.simonscat.com/Films/Cat-Man-Do/?sort=o (The video embedding wouldn't work.)

Here's the rest: http://www.simonscat.com/Films/?sort=o
They are really funny and remind me of my cats.

Year-round School

Some schools in my district started school last Monday, which was the 9th of July. They were in year-round school, where they had to go to school the same number of days as anybody else, but they had to go in summer. They might have longer breaks, but I still think year-round school would be horrible, for the students, the teachers, the parents, and even the district. (I had to write a convincing essay about how year-round school is better than regular school as an assignment, so I had to research it and learned even more bad things about it. I wanted to write how regular school was better, but I couldn't, but now I can!)
Why it's bad for the students: Part of the reason they do year-round school is that they think that kids will forget over summer break. But kids will forget whether it's over three months or three weeks. And studies show that kids in year-round school didn't learn anything more than kids in regular school. And they might even learn less because just as they get into a topic, there's a week long break and they have to review it all again. And most schools don't have air conditioning.
Why it's bad for the teachers: The teachers will always have to get ready for a break, and they can't teach as much because they spend more time reviewing. And they don't really get a break, because they will probably have to grade papers during the student's breaks.

Why it's bad for the parents: If the middle schools have the regular schedule but the elementary schools don't, then how would they schedule vacations or family activities? Or if the schools do "multitracking" which is where there are three groups of kids, with two in school and one on vacation at all times, then if some parents had two kids who were in different tracks it would be impossible to do stuff together.

Why it's bad for the district: It costs more to keep the school running year-round.

Now to send it to the school superintendent...

Please Subscribe!

If you like my blog please don't hesitate to follow or to post it on Facebook, Google+, or anything like that. I will post every single day, and if you aren't satisfied there is a 100% cash back guarantee! Although it's free... Okay forget I said that. But still, please check back every day and see what I added!

Popular Science and Popular Mechanics

I know I've been doing a lot of recommendations, but I think these are sites that you should know about. Popular Science is a magazine I get once every month, along with Popular Mechanics. Both of their websites have lots of interesting info, especially Popular Science. www.popsci.com www.popularmechanics.com

Freerice

Freerice is a site where you answer questions and stuff and for every question you answer correctly ten grains of rice are donated to help get rid of hunger. Oh and I made a group called The Harvey's and other peeps. Please join the group and help abolish hunger! www.freerice.com Oh and make sure you click play on the group page, or else it won't count. Here's the group: http://freerice.com/frog/join/1601538/e62ecce6449dc5cd82b4fe83df6547f8

Rub some bacon on it!

Cousins

My cousins have been in town for the past few days and it's been awesome. I've actually been pretty luckydttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttlk/kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkjkkkkkkk78. Sorry, Nate was killing me with an inflatable cactus. See, that's another reason why I like it. I mean, how many other kids like pretending an inflatable cactus is a rifle! (He just popped it.) And also they understand the stuff that I talk about (well sort of.) I think the picture above sums it up. Except I have hangouts with them about every day, which is kind of cool considering we live hundreds of miles away from each other. And they say stuff like this: Quotes from the Harvey's