2008 Boston Regional

[TD78]

Originally Posted by Stillen

Hmmm, I just banged it into my GPS, it looks to be just under a 1 mile walk, does this seem right?

yup! you can just about see the hotel across the river from the arena. its a great way to wake up in the morning on the way over to the pits, especially when its brisk out!

[Brandon Holley]

Yeah its less than a mile...not a bad walk

[Roger]

MCAS - ELA Reading Comprehension Session 3 - March 27th

Out of curiousity how is everyone handling MCAS on Thursday? I would guess there is a high percentage of schools from Massachusetts going to this regional (just guessing, y'know? ) and the 10th graders are finishing up their MCAS on Thursday morning.

At our parents meeting last night we decided to have parents drive them in after school Thursday, all 14 of them. Fortunately we have enough students for drivers on Thursday, but I'm thinking that day is going to seem rather empty.

(For those out-of-state, MCAS is a Massachusetts state-wide test given to various grades at various times of the year. And in spite of the teacher asking everybody what the schedule was and everybody assuring him everything was okay -- it wasn't.)

[KathieK]

This sort of thing happens in many states during FRC competition season. Last week the CT teams faced their mandatory state testing on Thursday and some also had SATs on Saturday which were re-scheduled from a previous date that was snowed out. You do what you can do to get the students there when they can be there.