Teacher Workday Tuesday

Y'all got that copy of the Constitution yet?


Home from teacher workday after sitting in a stinky, hot gym listening to an overpaid central office suit tell me how wide the achievement gap is. Really. He basically told us that report cards and homework were irrelevant. Now get busy.


So, I'm home with General Hospital on the TV and I want to know if anyone knows why or how Laura Spencer got out of the looney bin and what she's doing with Luke.

Please. I thought she was in some kind of a trance. Now she's not.

You miss a few months and this is how you get repaid.

Early Release Day

Mindless, wasted day. School ends at 12:10. Must include Art and Lunch. Must give at least an hour for the Math PreTest (which most everyone BOMBED). Bathroom breaks. Oh, yes. It is also PICTURE DAY!!!!! Are you kidding me? Guess how much genuine instruction I got in? That would be none.

After school was dismissed, we had to take the faculty picture on the playscape (0n which I climbed to the top because I wore my khaki walking shorts and tennis shoes - hey, don't judge, it's 86 freaking degrees here!!! and it was jean day) and then we had PROFESSIONAL LEARNING.

I've had about all the professional learning I can take. We had to read and "jigsaw" (fancy term for reading and giving a book report) a chapter about data and data teams; we had to meet as a grade level team about data and then we had to meet in the big group and report on data. We didn't leave until nearly four o'clock. That's three hours I'll never get back.

2.1

..hours wasted in meaningless meetings on Friday.

..pounds lost!!!!!

Who knows how many more hours the district will kill, but only about 16,000 more pounds to go.