wobbles in
Thanks for the birthday wishes and ~ma, gang! I'm still kind of fuzzy-headed, but I suspect that is due more to the 4 hours of sleep I got last night instead of the drugs.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Atropa - Nov 17, 2005 3:12:34 pm PST #5374 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Lee - Nov 17, 2005 3:13:31 pm PST #5375 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JILLI! Happy Birthday and good recovery and stuff.
Emily - Nov 17, 2005 3:13:49 pm PST #5376 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
You know what, never mind. It was a cheap shot about NCLB, but it came out wrong. This is not the post you're looking for. Move along.
Anne W. - Nov 17, 2005 3:14:01 pm PST #5377 of 10003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Happy Birthday, Jilli!
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2005 3:14:28 pm PST #5378 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Happy birthday Jilli!
JZ - Nov 17, 2005 3:14:47 pm PST #5379 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Happy birthday, Jilli! So glad you're home and groggy but okay!
Connie Neil - Nov 17, 2005 3:15:11 pm PST #5380 of 10003
brillig
She lives! Yay, Jilli!
DawnK - Nov 17, 2005 3:16:39 pm PST #5381 of 10003
giraffe mode
Jilli Happy Bday and Yay for surgery being over! !
Atropa - Nov 17, 2005 3:21:55 pm PST #5382 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I get to spend the evening lolling about, eating mac n' cheese from Whole Foods, and watching my new birthday DVD of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Not quite the whirlwind celebrations of previous years, but I'm not complaining.
ION, Trinian (the Dumbest Cat in the Universe) has mysteriously turned into a lap cat. I don't know if it's that she misses Beastie, or just that her little brain is stuck in an "Oooh, people!" setting.
Pix - Nov 17, 2005 3:32:54 pm PST #5383 of 10003
The status is NOT quo.
Last post on this subject for me for awhile.
Just want to point out that the entire institution of public education, especially in terms of teacher certification (as Emily alluded to, though I think that the states have done a helluva lot more for that than stoopid No Teacher Left Standing) has changed a LOT since when most of the people on the board were a part of it. I always get frustrated when I hear the "my school sucked 20 or 30 years ago; therefore, public schools still suck" argument. It's a bit like comparing technology of 10 years back to what we have now. Yes, in many states teachers are still overworked and underpaid and therefore may burn out or become negligent—and yes, as in any profession, there are some schools that are just plain poorly run and teachers that are just plain bad. Still, overall teachers now are better prepared (so few people who started school in the 60's and 70's even *had* opportunities to learn the art of teaching) and better paid than they were. And also? It's a lot harder to be a teacher now. All the parent communication and NCLB paperwork and continuing education and special ed paperwork and so on and so on and so on take up a lot more time. My parents both back me up on this. By the time they retired (Dad two years ago, Mom one), they said they were easily doing twice as much as when they first started. I just think you have to really WANT to be a teacher to stay in the profession now. Weekends off? Ha. Vacations? Lots of take-home work or continuing education or professional development. It used to be that someone could get away with being a shitty teacher who did the job for summers off. Those people still exist, but I think they are far more in the minority. There's a reason that 50% of all new teachers leave the profession within 5 years, never to return.
Which brings me back to the original reason I posted the article. I'm just so sick of parents going "over my head" if they don't like the grade their son/daughter is getting. I'm sick of having to talk freshmen off