Jeffco School Board History

Somehow, while updating this post, I brilliantly managed to delete it all. So this is a redo with added tweets. 

According to the Denver Post, the Jefferson County School Board wants to focus on the "positive aspects" of U.S. history and focus on the parts of history that "promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights." History curriculum should not, "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."

There have been some hilarious responses to these proposed curriculum changes under the twitter hashtag #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistory Here are some of my favorites:

Several of these were taken from the Westword blog's post. (Some spammer has started using the tag, making it hard to find the earlier posts.) 

High Park Fire Ash

Ashing is kinda like snowing, only when you get an ashflake in your eye, it hurts a whole ton more than a snowflake would. Take it from me. I know what I'm talking about. 

Meg walks the Bolder Boulder 2011

Back in June, my mom, sis and myself walked the Bolder Boulder. It's a 10 mile race/party that meanders through the streets of Boulder, Colorado. They stagger the start times into sections. I think we were in G. So we didn't start till 9. They give you a little tag to put on your shoe and at every mile mark (or was it kilometer mark? Now I don't remember.) there was a pad you'd cross over and the system would track your time. You could check in by cell phone to see how you were doing. (That's how we checked in, right Kare?) I think we did the course in 103 minutes. Mind you, there was a lot to see along the way. We kinda did a fast walk & gawk.
The first bit of video is still photos taken on my camera. But then my battery died so I pulled out my Flip, which means that the rest is jittery footage as I was walking. If you get car-sick easily, you'll probably want to stop once you see movement.

Also, I added a few music tracks to fill in the dead zones sound-wise. But most of the music was being performed by bands along the route.

Oh, and I make some grammatical gaffs in there. Hey, it was all off the top of my head. Go easy on me.