What Is It With These People??

Posted by on Sep 23, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know what they’re drinking in Tallahassee, but apparently now there’s yet ANOTHER test we have to administer our kids to find out what’s up with their godforsaken reading scores. This one’s computer-based, though, and will take up two day’s worth of class time that I now can’t spend instructing them. Yeah, that makes sense.You see, apparently the...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Presidential Speech Edition

Posted by on Sep 8, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Just in case you’ve been camping on the moon for the past couple of weeks, today President Obama delivered his socialist agenda brainwashing speech to innocent children, better known to those of us who actually use our brains to think as a Presidential Back-to-School address. Seems President Obama, who knows from both his and the First Lady’s backgrounds that a solid education is the...
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Dumbass, Party of One

Posted by on Aug 14, 2009 in dish | 5 comments Ever have one of those days? Today was mine. I’m ferrying Frick and Frack and a friend to a skating party on an end of town I try never to explore, if I can help it. Then, while trying to get turned back around in the second most badly-designed parking lot in the world, I get distracted and WHAM! I hit a curb, Inga lurches unbecomingly, scrape, curse, I manage to cut a hole in the sidewall...
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IB Pissed

Posted by on Jun 20, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know about you, but sometimes professional conferences are a pain in my considerable behind. Today’s is no exception. I’m at a gorgeous beach resort–no complaints there–with nice food and a room that’s about a hundred feet from the Gulf of Mexico. Fine. Dandy.What’s not fine, or even approaching dandy, is the veritable avalanche of paper I got...
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Last Day!!

Posted by on Jun 3, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Today is the last day of school…and am I ready!! One more exam to give, then it’s grade grade grade, then clean clean clean, then pack pack pack stuff to work on over the summer because, contrary to popular belief, teachers do not get three months off. Let me repeat that:TEACHERS DO NOT GET THREE MONTHS OFF.The “three months off” canard is one commonly tossed at folks...
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