Yes, exactly, GC.

When you do your hair at home it's much easier to be the hippest one in the joint.

Though I normally had my hair cut at a barber's, and it was just...let's just say that switching to doing it at home was quite a relief. Men can suck sometimes.

I get my hair cut at a barber's, but it's one of those hipster ones.

Oh, Jess. I'm so sorry for your loss.

The Pastor of the church/head of the school has only given the reason "it's God's Will". This is not going down well with anyone and the school is refusing (so far) to go into details. Like -- was he cheating?allowing students to cheat? breaking any kind of rule?

The coach claims he has no idea why he was fired.

Um. Am I the only person who instantly assumes child abuse?

No, you are not , Fay.

Well, it looks like tomorrow will be COOKIE BAKING DAY in our house. I have some recipes that worked well last year, but am looking for some new ones to try...any suggestions?

I have peanut butter kiss cookies, shortbread, gingerbread, and rum balls so far...though we may drop the rum balls.

RUM BALLS!

Checking in from the glamorous Holiday Inn Express in cosmopolitan downtown Vernon.

Jessica, I'm so sorry about your grandfather. I hope you got out OK to your family.

Jen, hope your friend is doing better.

The current rumors are that the possible bad things he was fired for: a) he used foul language in front of a student; b) he has a problem with alcohol; c) he made an inappropriate comment/gesture to a student or d) he's an alcoholic child molester.

The not bad rumors are: he is more popular than the Pastor so the Pastor is jealous; the Pastor is a dictator who's ruined the church and the school and has fired the Coach; the Coach was not tithing/attending church/praying enough and/or correctly; the former Coach is out of a job so the current coach was fired to bring him back.

There have also been rumors/allegations of that the Pastor has mismanaged the school/church including firing /forcing people out for petty reasons.

If there is some kind of child abuse or misconduct with the students then the police should be involved and there should be a statement of some kind.

Last year at another private school it was discovered that a teacher of 20 years had child porn. It was all over the news, he'd made a cd of pictures taken at a school event and gave it to students and staff, but it had one of the child porn images. It was handed over the the police and a statement was made. It was discovered he had hundreds of thousands of images and video at his house.

Unfortunately there have been a couple of other situations where a teacher was suspended/fired for allegations of inappropriate behavior with a student and in those cases it was the public school, which made public announcements.

Um. Am I the only person who instantly assumes child abuse?

From local reports it seems a different kind of abuse. Politics. Coach seems an all round good guy. Guesses that sound plausible are that a big contributor, perhaps parent of a benched kid could have pulled weight, or that he wasn't "Christian" enough for the school. Lots of uproar about it.

eta: waves to my upstate neighbor! It seems unlikely the truth will come out, but ya never know with this level of publicity

Am I the only person who instantly assumes child abuse?

Nope--though high school, I actually assume inapropriate sexual relationship with student....

Am wearing the red dress, headed to the holiday party. Of course, today we got news of drastic crazy budget cuts, so I'm not sure how much we'll be partying, and how much we'll be gossiping and drinking, but...