State Again?

Is it happening again? Can Kimberly reach the state championship again? Remember last year at Madison.. It was very cold game. Cold enough so you can see your own breath. Remember the crowd? Kimberly out-numbered DeForest, just like we out-numbered all the other team's crowds. Recall the feeling of the crowd so desperatly cheering on the team. Everytime Kimberly made a play the crowd went wild. The noise of everything went through the veins of everyone. This game meant everything. No matter who you were at the game whether'd you be a student, parent, teacher, senior-citizen, kid, we were all in this together. The feeling of a touchdown putting Kimberly in the lead, and another one to push the lead greater was unbearable. Everytime that happend the kimberly side was given rich paychecks of excitment, and heart. Everyone on Kimberly's side was focused on the game. Not just the players, but everyone was in this game together. One heart, one team, one goal, win. The final seconds of the game was a nucular explosion of emotion. Kimberly won 20-7. The first state championship Kimberly had ever won. Remeber that trophy. The one with the huge golden shiny football with state champs on it? Well another one is reach. Kimberly is so close of grabbing another state title. With one more game until the State game can Kimberly do it again?

Field Trip Planning Competition

Several students have voiced their opinions, "Mr. McCabe, we should go on a field trip!" Here's your chance- submit a typed plan for a field trip to Mr. McCabe or Mrs. Van Hout. All submissions should answer the following:
-Field trip location
-What educational value does the field trip have?
-cost
-plan of what will happen at the field trip

CORE Stock Club

CORE Charter School has started up a stock club. Students in CORE Charter have the option of joining this club. Prizes will be awarded quarterly. Students became interested in the stock market during a finance unit. They have been using the website: www.stocksquest.com as a stock market simulation. Students will start out with $1000 and they will will trade stocks in an effort to improve their portfolio. Students will meet twice a week for 30 minutes to discuss their experiences with the stock market. I will set up guest speakers and other activities throughout the year.

Reacting to Recount

Students in CORE Charter School recently viewed the movie Recount. Please comment and react to the movie. I would like to start a conversation about the events surrounding the 2000 election. What exactly happened in Florida?

Lio's Article

October 21, 2008

Post~Crescent

Teenagers question police profiling in park

Article's Page

I would like to respond to the Oct. 2 editorial, "Neenah park rules seem unnecessary."

I'm one the Goth kids who goes to the beloved Doty Park in Neenah. Not long ago, when my friends and I were hanging out, talking to old friends and just being teenagers, we were called to the side by one of Neenah's finest, who told us that we needed a permit to hang out in a public park.

My friends and I took a stand by trying to enforce our own civil rights and told the cop that he was stereotyping.

Now considered a counterculture to the community, society's vexation on us kids led us to a place where we wouldn't be judged, where we could be among friends and help each other deal with the aspects of our lives that society would rather ignore.

I also want to thank all the friends who stood by my side. Together, we will show that this permit is just another result of people thinking we're intimidating because we wear black, and we are fighting against what society thinks of us.

They don't know who we are and what we stand for, which is why we get accused of the vandalism and profanity just because of our appearance.

Now, I'm not saying that we are all perfect angels who don't have records for past social misconduct, but we know who we are and we have respect for this place that the citizens are trying to deprive us from.

Doty Park is a sanctuary for kids to go to escape the worries of this world, a haven from parents who tell us we will never amount to anything, from parents who hit us with fists and verbal attacks and from the society that made us who we are today.

Emilio A. Romenesko, age 17, Appleton

WLUK

About two Sundays ago I woke up around 12:30. I noticed that I totally just missed thirty minutes of the Green Bay Packer game. So knowing it's always on channel 12 (WLUK) I ran down my stairs and flipped on the channel. All I got was a foolish little kiddie show that my little cousin who's three years old would watch. Nope, the Packers aren't on TV anymore. I get to watch the Colts on ESPN, and some other NFL team on a little bit later, but not my Green Bay Packers who play in Green Bay thirty minutes away. So Time Waner Cable has banned WLUK where the big Fox 11 News was and where thousands would watch the Green Bay Packers play. I was confused on why I wasn't able to watch the Packers like I used to for the many previous years. So heres an article from the Post Crescent on this problem. Read it and tell me what you think..

WLUK gone from Time Warner Cable

WLUK TV is not on Time Warner Cable this morning, and viewing of Sunday’s Green Bay Packers game on the cable system is in question.

The station’s parent company, LIN TV, and Time Warner corporate officials did not come to an agreement for retransmission consent by the deadline of midnight Thursday.

So the channel is blocked for about 150,000 Time Warner customers throughout northeastern Wisconsin.
A Time Warner statement on the screen where WLUK normally airs says, “By refusing us an extension, LIN TV pulled WLUK from Time Warner Cable.”

Negotiations continued past 11 p.m. and Time Warner asked for a 24-hour extension, said William Harke, spokesman for Time Warner in this region. LIN did not agree, and the station was pulled, Harke said.

In a statement on WLUK’s Web site today, vice president and general manager Jay Zollar said it has tried for several months to reach an agreement.
“We are disappointed in the outcome of our negotiations with Time Warner, especially since we have successfully reached deals with every major cable, satellite and telecommunications company who recognize our fair market value,” Zollar said. “We will continue to negotiate with Time Warner. Unfortunately, we do not know if, or when, we will reach an agreement.”It’s estimated that 2.7 million Time Warner subscribers receive one of LIN stations.

Time Warner’s Web site today offered this in a letter to customers from Time Warner Cable Wisconsin president Jack Herbert: “We have been negotiating in good faith, but the decision to remove WLUK from our channel line-up was made by LIN TV and WLUK, not by Time Warner Cable.

We asked WLUK FOX 11 for an extension of our agreement allowing us to keep this channel on your lineup. They said ‘No.’”Other options for viewing WLUK include over the air with an antenna or via the Dish Network, DirecTV or AT&T in certain areas.Time Warner is offering free antennas and A/B switches so customers may watch WLUK programming over the air. The equipment will be available at Time Warner’s payment service centers in Green Bay, Appleton and Oshkosh.“We’ll have a lot of people at our stores passing out antennas and giving away instructions on how to install the antennas and some instructions on our Wisconsin On Demand station as well,” Harke said.

The apparent center of the dispute is the compensation that LIN is asking for Time Warner to air its stations’ programming.Besides the Packers, scheduled to appear on Fox eight more times this season, Time Warner customers also would miss shows like “The Simpsons” and baseball’s National League Championship Series and two World Series games.

THANK YOU

I would like to thank all of the students and parents who attended the 2nd Annual CORE Charter Pancake Dinner. The students did a wonderful job of demonstrating their progress to their parents. I would also like to thank Mrs. Van Hout for all of the hard work that she did to make the dinner possible. The groceries, supplies, and griddles, made the cooking and camaraderie possible.