Sorry your GPS system failed you.
I have happy memories of Stroudsberg- my grandparents lived in Bangor (PA)when I was growing up and we would go to Stroudsberg every now and again.
Teachers don't like that new math method because they are too lazy to write new lesson plans. It's easier to do things the old way than to try something new.
Most men have a problem with women giving them directions. 
However there was that dame in Germany who drove some poor guy into a ditch. Maybe you got the "NOW" version?
Maybe I did, I don't know. But after the GPS debacle I'm never trying anything new again. I'm gonna buy a rusty old Chevy Nova, get a bunch of 8-track tapes, get an administrative license, then post myself securely in a cubicle and smoke a lot of cigarettes.
Stroudsburg is charming, by the way, if you can find it.
I travel a lot, and I'm writing this from Stroudsburg, PA.
Hey! Since you're about twenty-five minutes from where I live you might as well stop by for some cocoa or rooibos tea or something like that. 
Stroudsburg, PA? Coming here? Should I put something special on the stove?
Sounds good. I didn't know I had so many neighbors out there.
My dark secret is that I play fiddle with bluegrass bands on weekends, and lately I've been getting more calls from PA. Things went well this weekend, so I may be getting even more. We'll see.
Boy, restaurant prices are night and day from what they are here. So are homes and taxes. It's as though people can actually afford to live there. Maybe I was in another country and they forgot to check my passport.
Too bad teacher salaries are rather pitiful- but then again, when a spacious house on a large piece of property can cost as little as $200,000, the salary doesn't look quite as bad. Besides, in PA, they have snow days and a cap on the number of days in the school year.
Stroudsburg's about 160 miles due east of here. It's prettier here than it is there.
Fiddle? My cousin at Kutztown U plays mandolin (and I'd like to). Time to break out the bass and practice up, I'd say.
The right-wingers and anti-evolutionists over at Telic Thoughts put up a link to the same video, but they said that it's "new math" perpetrated by "educational elites" -- they mean people like you and me. When I asked them to define "elite" they rather came unglued.
For the last four years I've been vexed as hell by kids who can't figure their percentages. For warm-ups I usually give a potential five points, and grading of 5/5 produced angry reactions from kids who insisted they deserved close to 100 because they got everything right. Math isn't my forte, though I scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT (it was only 96th on the ACT). But repeated practice in long division to produce percentages seems to produce some benefits in my social studies classes.
The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) doesn't go for calculation, though. It would be more likely to show a map of your detour through Hackensack, list the miles into and out of town, and then ask what the mean temperature of Hackensack is in January. Texas wants kids who can think, not kids who know how to do math.
They're learning how to apply thinking to get the right choice on the multiple guess tests.
I'm also perplexed when my politics get dragged into this. I hardly think of Bloomberg and Klein, who adore this program, as liberals. They're virulently anti-labor, for one thing.
However, none of the GOP voices on this blog want to lay claim to them either.
Hey laying claim to Joel Klein would be like laying claim to Bill and Hillary and what conservative would ever do something like that?
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