<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of today's (August 2, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><h2 class="quiet top" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 30px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a class="quiet" href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: invert none medium; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); ">Huckleberries Online</a></h2><div class="blogpost-detail" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2013/aug/01/luna-has-entered-building/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: invert none medium; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 70, 93); ">Luna Has Left The Building</a></h1></div></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Huckleberries hears that Superintendent Tom Luna was late for that Friends of Idaho (but not of Common Core) meeting in the Coeur d'Alene Library community room, scheduled to start at 10:30. An eyewitness reports: ” As he entered, Ray Writz, possible candidate for City Council announced, 'Hey, Tom! You're late and you're pushing something we don't want.'”</span></p><ul style="margin: 0px 21px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">12:03 p.m.</strong> Superintendent Luna leaves anti-Common Core meeting for GOP women's luncheon.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:56 a.m.</strong> Provided on a slide: An example of a current 4th grade math standard question: 5/8 + 1/8 = ? A. 6/16; B. 6/8; C. 7/8 or D. 4/8? Compare to the new core standard 4th grade math question implemented this fall: Five friends ordered 3 large sandwiches. James ate 3/4 of a sandwich. Katya ate 1/4 of a sandwich. Ramon ate 3/4 of a sandwich. Sienna ate 2/4 of a sandwich. How much sandwich is left for Oscar? Man in audience was frustrated. Asked, “I don't know how to answer this. How am I supposed to help my child with homework?”</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:37 a.m.</strong> Asked of Luna, “Why are we teaching for college and not real life?”</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:16 a.m.</strong> Luna encourages us to look at the standards posted on the state's education department's data. He says to look at the individual standards. In the two years the standards have been posted, not one person has reached out to state a specific criticism with a particular standard.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">11:07 a.m.</strong> Several outbursts have occurred. Sometimes not full sentences, just things like, “Bill Gates!” Or “State Sovereignty!” One man has interrupted Tom Luna to explain “Bill Gates' footprints is all over this.” Crowd has now been asked to hold questions until Luna has finished his presentation.</span></li></ul></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>