The White Stuff: It’s Headed Our Way

Expect a little  -- or a lot  -- of the white stuff this weekend.

Snow is forecast to start falling tonight and Saturday afternoon, well into Sunday. In fact , if you’ve missed Winter  -- you’re gonna love Sunday. From The National Weather Service:

Partly sunny, with a high near 13. Wind chill values as low as -7. Blustery, with a northwest wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Meanwhile, all of this is terrific news for area skiers. Gore Mountain is open Saturday and Sunday with more than three miles of terrain open on Foxlair or Ruby Run off the gondola.

Those trails meet up for a run down the East Side that puts together bits and pieces of Foxlair, Sunway, Quicksilver, 3B, and Jamboree. Hee Haw!!!

Wanna ski cheap? This weekend, double your food drive discount to $20 off extra value season pricing, so with the donation of  two non-perishable food items and ages 20-64 ski for just $32, teens and seniors for $23, and juniors for just $9!  

The John King Show: Full Coverage Of The Schroon "Listening Tour" With NY's Top Education Chief

Did you miss the meeting held by Dr. John King, New York State's Education Commissioner on his recent Schroon listening tour, hearing feed back about the controversial Common Core Curriculum?

Well, thanks to Mert Melfa, who posted a video of the entire meeting to You Tube, you can catch up with all of the concerns -- and there were many of them -- from outraged parents, who gave Dr. King an earful. Were you there? Tell us your thoughts in comments.

King Gets an Earful

"They're coming home crying, Commissioner King, that's one of their experiences."

That was the blunt assessment from one parent about New York State’s controversial Common Core Curriculum, implemented by the New York Education Commissioner John King, who was in Schroon this past Tuesday at the Schroon Lake Central School.

King was in town for his last stop on what his office called a “listening tour”, getting feed back from parents and teachers and students, about the  Common Core.plan, now in New York School.

At his side were Chancellor Merryl Tisch, Senator Betty Little, and Assemblyman Dan Stec.

King listened intently as another parent expressed her outrage:

"I encourage you as a leader of the Department of Education in New York State, to say to all of these parents, to say to this community, I'm sorry”, according to a report filed by YNN.

You can read more of that report here,  and read what the the Adirondack Enterprise reported here, and what NCPR had to report here

Grading NY's Education Commissioner

The controversial Common Core has been embraced by  45 states, the District of Columbia and Department of Defense schools. But for many in New York, who have had the Common Core  thrust upon them – they are not happy.

That’s the main point of a story in the New York Times on Sunday, where the Common Core is even blamed for a what’s referred to as “Common Core Syndrome”.

That nugget was provided to the Times by Beth Dimino, an eighth-grade science teacher, who spoke out at a packed high school auditorium in Suffolk County recently.

Her  remarks were directed at one person: State Education Commissioner John King, who will be in Schroon Lake tomorrow for a listening tour, where he will hear from teachers, parents and students.

From Beth Dimino via the New York Times:

“Do you understand what that means? We have children that are being diagnosed by psychologists with a syndrome directly related to work that they do in the classroom. If that is not child abuse, I don’t know what is.”

King will hold his  public forum in the Schroon Lake Central School’s auditorium  to talk about the new Common Core Curriculum on Wednesday, November 20, from 3:30 pm – 5:30pm. Are you going?