noticias

- krispy kreme fundraiser tomorrow a.m. ... is it worth getting up for? not the donuts, the getting there at 5 a.m. to help sell them.

- got pissed off at c. today. she doesn't talk to the kids, undermines me when i do ... all that negativity wafts through the class like really bad perfume. (or, my classic diplomatic response: maybe we're just different.)

- asked her today if she had read Crispin, because i mean to. she said she rarely reads what the kids read. i could rest my case right there, but it gets better. she looked at what two of the boys (whom she identified as "lazy and weak" their first day in school) had borrowed and ordered them to return harry potter and lord of the rings to the shelf. she told them, "i know you can't read that. you know you can't read that. put it back."

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON?

- first seminar last night. sob stories all around. i can't wait till next week, when i can rant about this batch of fresh offenses. i realize we're not in these classrooms to critique them, and it's supposed to be the other way around, and they are all god's gift to fledgling teachers, but for the love of jebediah even i know that "you know you can't read" is something you never tell a child, ever.


okay, off to LP land. chuckles aplenty.