04.30.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Championships, Sports, Politics, Track Meets, Upcoming, WTF, Education, South Area, Noise Flash!!!, Worst Person in the World at 1:59 pm by Administrator
before the frosh/soph meet, there was a coaches meeting. there was a vote on the whether to have 18 qualifiers or 16 for the south area meet. now this meeting should have been held sooner and shouldnt have been held right before a seven hour plus track meet.
there wouldnt be a need for the vote, if the liberty track had been built correctly in the beginning. someone (not a track person) though it would be a good idea to put a fence right next to lane nine. this was a dangerous situation that shouldnt of ever happen in the first place.
then last year, the track was resurfaced and instead of moving or removing (or using portable fences) the fence. some genius decided to make it an eight lane track. sheer brilliance.
so now all the coaches are given about a minute to decide the fate of the south area meet. the only reason to drop down to 16 was to save time. sadly, some coaches were heard to say that they didnt want to sit through the extra heats.
we could of done what they are doing for valley. three heats, top 8 in one and two heats of 5 (wont need to do this if liberty was a nine lane track). but instead of letting athletes get one last chance to compete, the majority decided they wanted to go home earlier.
an athlete may have been training all four years for a chance to compete at the area meet but wont get the chance now.
SO SAD!
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04.16.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Schools, Sports, Politics, History, WTF, Drillers, Education, Driller Noise, Noise Flash!!!, Bakersfield at 9:57 pm by Administrator
the other day the men with the blueprints meet after school and showed the driller adminstration (reese and harvick) what they had planned for the driller football field and track remodel.
from what i hear, they will keep the old concrete grandstand but add to it to make more seating possible. plus they are suppose to build a fieldhouse.
the vistor stands are suppose to moved to the outside of the track too. the discus and shot rings will be moved to the field behind the home grandstand.
the football field is suppose to stay grass. why i dont know, sure artificial turf costs more to put in but in the long run i bet it is cheaper. you dont have to mow it, water it, chalk it etc.
then comes our track. the photo shows how it looked the week after our 400 relay won the west coast relays. it was flooded in several places (didnt rain though) and dispite numerous signs, they still drove on it!
at least the moisture makes the track softer. it is usually as hard as concrete. so far in the remodel plans, we will get a dirt track again. one hopes we can raise money to put in an all-weather track. the kern high school district has one all-weather track and we need more.
sure some will howl that bakersfield high gets everything but it isnt the case by far. i hope the community will support getting bakersfield high a new track and i and others are looking into getting grants to make this happen.
lastly, it sounds like all this construction will start after the 2008 football season. so the drillers wont have a track at all in 2009.
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09.26.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Politics, History, WTF at 11:06 am by Administrator
Navy to mask Coronado’s swastika-shaped barracks
Ground level isn’t a problem but aerial views of the Coronado site spark outrage.
By Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 26, 2007
CORONADO, Calif., — The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air. Read the rest of this entry »
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07.30.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Politics, Religion, Education at 2:52 pm by Administrator
Young and out on the field
An emerging generation of gay athletes in high school and college is changing the rules.
By David Wharton
Times Staff Writer
July 28, 2007
Seattle — THE guys in his boat took to calling him “Badger” because of the grimace he wore during races. Part of a junior rowing club that ranked among the fastest in the nation, Lucas Goodman was relentless on the water.
It was a different story on land.
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07.11.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Politics, Education at 1:53 pm by Administrator
Locke High’s weary teachers face a hard multiple-choice test
They’re divided over whether to become a charter school.
By Joel Rubin
Times Staff Writer
July 11, 2007
At a better school, in a less desperate part of the city, Zeus Cubias might have shrugged off the disruption.
But after a decade teaching at Locke High School — one of the worst in the Los Angeles public school system — he was annoyed when a recent geometry class ended with one more small reminder of how much things need to change.
click HERE for the rest of the story
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05.11.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Politics, Religion, Education at 4:22 pm by Administrator
The site is basically a Blog / Forum / chat type site. Comments can be posted and discussions can occur. These are blocked by KHSD Board policy.
Bruce Constantino
Kern High School District
IST Technical Support Supervisor
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