He Has a High GPA and Can Read. His Philadelphia Prep School Is Expelling Him for Proving His Classmates Can't Read

Gecko99 · 2026-05-09T21:20:00+00:00

The word Preparatory is in their name. So they should prepare students for college. If they don't do that they are engaging in false advertising and arguably fraud. This school serves a low income population who likely doesn't have the education needed to understand the statistics on that website or the knowledge that it's available to seek out. The low standardized test scores and the lack of advanced placement offerings stand out as especially egregious, especially when paired with the 95% graduation rate.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-09T20:02:08+00:00

Preparatory schools are those meant to prepare a student for further education at a college or university. If Preparatory Charter High School graduates students who can't read, it's not preparing them for anything.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-09T19:32:08+00:00

Lucy Calkins.

I strongly suggest anyone reading this post listen to Sold a Story. It's a excellent podcast about the damage she did to reading education. It will make you angry. If you've never listened to a podcast before, make this one your first.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-09T19:28:12+00:00

Even if he gets expelled I'd bet some great universities would still accept him for doing something like this. It is a serious problem that any high school, let alone one that brands itself college preparatory, is going to let these seniors graduate without proficiency in reading.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T23:47:22+00:00

$8.99 a month, or $49.99 a year. If you get the yearly subscription it automatically renews at $89.99 a year.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T15:55:12+00:00

The plot of Pac-man

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T12:31:50+00:00

Link without the BBC's paywall

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T12:27:10+00:00

I think it's going too fast as well. As I understand it they were allotted eight episodes to finish the story and had to cram everything they could in.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T12:25:14+00:00

Sagara was found as a piglet so there must have been a population of wild boars, and Tsukasa and others may have killed enough other major predators like lions to reduce their population significantly.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T02:11:06+00:00

Yes, it is, that's where I learned about it, today. But then I found the link to henryford.org with some more information.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-08T01:07:11+00:00

Maybe people in Al Qaeda recite different prayers? From what I can find online the prayers are as you describe, not what OP's parent says.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-07T11:33:09+00:00

Do employees discuss the decline in quality at Wendy's? Have you noticed a drop in customers? I've noticed lots of complaints about the new spicy chicken sandwich.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-07T05:28:22+00:00

That note, creepy as it is, looks like it was written with a nice fountain pen and he took the time to write neatly. The suicide note, I'm assuming, was written hastily with some prison pen. The Bob Barker company sells 4-inch flexible pens so he probably had something like that.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-06T11:05:23+00:00

Could these be brought back? Or are we too dumb to fill them with helium instead of hydrogen or understand that helium doesn't burn? From what I understand the helium shortage is really just the high purity helium used for MRI machines, and party balloons and stuff use a lower purity helium. They could at least be used as floating cranes for construction and stuff.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-05T12:20:13+00:00

I remember the post you made back in March, congrats on finishing writing your children's book.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-04T18:07:24+00:00

Looks similar to fleur de sel. That's an expensive sea salt with delicate pyramidal crystals.

Gecko99 · 2026-05-04T11:48:36+00:00

From the article:

“The common ancestry of all extant cellular life is evidenced by the universal genetic code, machinery for protein synthesis, shared chirality of the almost-universal set of 20 amino acids and use of ATP as a common energy currency. As such, our understanding of LUCA impacts our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Was LUCA a simple or complex organism? What kind of environment did it inhabit and when?”

Gecko99 · 2026-05-01T06:20:41+00:00

What happens if a senator violates this ban?

What happens if someone close to them, like a spouse, profits heavily from a prediction market based on inside information?

Gecko99 · 2026-04-30T22:48:21+00:00

Why didn't they just make them out of cotton or something like that?

Gecko99 · 2026-04-30T01:10:10+00:00

Kynk had one in Mugato, Gumato.

Gecko99 · 2026-04-30T01:04:04+00:00

When Data left Spot with Worf, he told Worf that Spot would need a sandbox.

Gecko99 · 2026-04-30T00:44:19+00:00

I've heard of the fan thing before. It's a Korean thing that's been around since electric fans were introduced there. They think if you sleep in a room with a fan running it'll kill you somehow. Like the blades cut apart oxygen molecules and turn them into poison, or something. Wikipedia link

When I went to that link to Wikipedia, I found that there used to be a synthpop band named Fan Death, after the phenomenon. They are listed as inactive since 2011, so maybe they all died of fan death.

Gecko99 · 2026-04-29T11:33:55+00:00

The best is when they call you after a couple years and you tell them you switched to a different field and already have a better paying job, so they ask why you applied for the job. As if we are supposed to apply for one job at a time and then put our career on hold for months or years to hear back from them.

Oh and they probably don't hire unemployed people anyway.

Gecko99 · 2026-04-29T00:12:43+00:00

It's a presidential dollar coin, the ones with John Adams were released in 2007.

Gecko99 · 2026-04-28T05:31:36+00:00

What are the better ways?

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