Tales Out of School

If I know I am going to be out of my classroom, I leave detailed, detailed, lesson plans which I expect to be followed to the letter. If I didn't expect them to be followed, I wouldn't take the time to make the plans in the first place. I'd just leave some pile of crap on my desk and let the kids muddle through the best that they could. However, I don't do that because I care about what my students are doing, even when I'm not there.

Apparently, my substitute yesterday didn't share my enthusiasm for the plan. She sat in my chair, behind my desk and ate Cheerios from her box. She shouted directives from behind my desk and when those didn't work, she called my kids special. Now, what the hell is that supposed to mean? Something sarcastic, as one of my kids told me. They aren't stupid. They got it. She didn't even write my assignment on the whiteboard.

Never fear - I took her name off our sub list.

What's Up on CNN?

While watching John King and his map, that infamous toy he has become so competent at using during this primary season, I happened to see him, at least I think it was him, mapping Senator Ted Kennedy's head. He popped the top off and then he proceeded to draw around the cancerous tumor that was discovered today. Now, I might be mistaken. It might have been someone else at CNN, but people, someone on the network was ghoulishly drawing around the man's tumor-laden head.