Church

If you don't go to my church, I'm not sure if you'll fine this funny:



Starbucks anyone?

No Child Left Behind

I received this in an e-mail, so I don't know the original author. But, if you're in education (or really like sports), you might find it interesting.

No Child Left Behind: The Football Version

1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable. If, after two years, they have not won the championship, their footballs and equipment will be taken away until they do win the championship.

2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time even if they do not have the same conditions or opportunities to practice on their own. NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest in football, lack of desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities from themselves or their parents.
ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL!

3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own, without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time for the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability, or whose parents don't like football.

4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 3rd, 8th, and 11th games. It will create a New Age of Sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimum goals. If no child gets ahead, then no child gets left behind.

If parents do not like this new law, they are encouraged to vote for vouchers and support private schools that can screen out the non-athletes and prevent their children from having to go to school with bad football players.

sick

I've spent most of the past 36 hours sleeping. And coughing. And running a high fever. I feel better and have only a low fever at the moment. When I went to the doctor yesterday she asked if I had been around anyone that had been sick. I said, "I work at an elementary school." And she said, "Ah, that'll do it."
Hope I didn't get anyone sick at the Superbowl party.

All work and no play

Work is getting a bit stressful again. I love working with the kids. It's everything else that weighs me down and takes up roughly half my work week. I'm being observed sometime this week/next week and again on Monday. I'm not worried about Monday's observation, but the other one makes me nervous. I have 10 IEP meetings between now and mid February. I have four kids to test in the next month. I have three new kids on my caseload. And the list goes on.

There's no way I can do all of that on my own. So I'm thankful that God is there to walk with me through it all.

And, on another happy note, Thomas is here :)

God is good

"Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things." Philippians 4:8

One of these days I'll writen a real post

In the meantime, this cracked me up when I first saw it:




One more day till winter break!

This is my problem at work

"I also have a lot of infinity problems. Those are the ones where before you can solve a particular problem first you must solve some other problem, and so on to infinity. For example, before I drive someplace for the first time I might want to print out directions at the computer. But first I must change the ink cartridge on the computer. And before I can do that I must go to the store and buy that cartridge. And before I do that I must find the 20% off coupon so I don’t later have shopper’s remorse. And before I do that I have to clean up my office or there is no real hope in finding that coupon. Before long I’m shingling the roof and I no longer remember where I wanted to drive." - Scott Adams on the Dilbert Blog