Roy F. McCampbell's Blog

Fred,

We learned that our district will be participating in the PARCC field tests this spring.  I took a screen shot of the test sessions for the ELA test.  The first three tests need to be given in late March/early April and the end of year tests will be given in May.  I personally got nauseous thinking about nine-year olds sitting through these tests.

ISAT was 45 minutes with up to an additional 10 minutes and many children found that exhausting.  Now nine-year old children will need to sit for up to 120 minutes straight? Then they will take two additional lengthy tests in the same week?  Many of my students would take the full 120 minutes because they would want to take their time and do well.  I also looked at the field test sample questions that are available online and feel that some children will be so overwhelmed…

In August of 1962, when this film was made at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Ringo was 22 years old, John was 21, Paul was 20 and George was 19!

I couldn’t begin to give the entire history of what happened in 1966 in this forum, but the notes for this video posted by YouTube user In The Life of … the Beatles are extensive and well done.

A short quote:

A furore occurred in August 1966 after John Lennon’s remark that The Beatles had become “more popular than Jesus” was quoted by American teen magazine Datebook. Lennon originally made the remark when English newspaper reporter Maureen Cleave interviewed him for her series on the lifestyles of the four individual Beatles. When published in the United Kingdom in March 1966, Lennon’s words provoked no public reaction.

The controversy erupted on the eve of the band’s 1966 US tour. The strength and scale of the reaction against the Beatles led their manager, Brian Epstein, to consider cancelling the tour for fear of their lives.”

And this is the whole of their…