Our Lunch is Better For You than the One Your Mommy Made!!!

I am very afraid if this happened to my child or grandchild, I would have to make sure I had bail money in my pocket.

"NC Preschooler’s “Unhealthy” Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria Nuggets"

More crap from the administration of "The Big ZERO."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Two Former Silsbee (TX) Football Players Indicted for Sexual Assult

A southeastern Texas grand jury has indicted two former Silsbee High School sfootball players in the alleged sexual assault of a school cheerleader.

Read the story in the Houston Chronicle by clicking here.

IMHO, Bolton (left) and Roundtree (above) sound like a couple of "players" who "believed" they could do as they pleased because they had the skill of catching and/or throwing a football.

I will keep everyone posted on this story.

"The family isn't happy with their daughter being assaulted or with anything surrounding the case, but they're satisfied the system is back on track. It's interesting that this is the second grand jury to hear the facts that occurred more than a year ago. Another grand jury was scheduled to hear the case in September of this year, but because of the inappropriate release of information to the grand jury from the D.A.'s office, that grand jury was denied the opportunity to hear the case. This grand jury heard essentially the same information heard by the previous grand jury. They had the Silsbee P.D. case file. This has been available to the school district and they didn't do one darned thing except yank the cheerleader out of her activities because she protested having to cheer during a basketball game for one of the people accused of sexually assaulting her." - Larry Watts, a Houston-area attorney representing the teen's family in the civil lawsuit filed in Hardin County.

I AM NOT DEAD!!!

Contrary to popular rumor, I AM NOT DEAD!!!

My school has been keeping me so busy. Our TAKS scores were not as good as they could have been and the administration is running around; running our asses into the ground to get the scores up.

My response to them is, "You cannot get blood from a turnip!"

My fellow educators and I are working our butts off to do the very best job possible, but when you have students who are more interested in gang banging, sex, drugs and whatever entitlements they feel they deserve from the government, people who care cannot do much more than they already do.

We are fighting a culture that does not value education and in such a venue, immediate gratification is what they want; what they demand; what they expect.

In any case, I am back to posting whenever I can get my head above water.

My Lovely Bride and I commented the other day that retirement looks mighty good right now.

Time will only tell.

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!" - Howard Beale in the movie "Network" -

School Is Almost Out!

"Three days with students and graduation to go." - Texas Truth

Study: 58.5 percent of Houston-area freshmen graduate

Yesterday the Houston Chronicle had an article entitled "Study: 58.5 percent of Houston-area freshmen graduate."

I do not find this surprising. When the students family's socio-economic and cultural heritage do not value education and belief that they have property rights to things they did not earn, then they will NEVER find success in education and later on, in the real world.

If they spend $1000 on bling (their words) and use food stamps, then IMHO, they are losers. They are leeches. They should be allowed to drop out and no government assistance allowed.

Even better would to make it a requirement to receive government assistance is to REQUIRE drug tests of everyone in the family residence, ALL children under 18 are in school and passing ALL subjects, and ALL children in school have no discipline or criminal problems.

If any of these were violated, then all assistance would be terminated. Hit the parents of these losers in their pocketbooks and I promise the graduation rates would rise.

If these losers do not graduate, then to quote Judge Smails in "Caddyshack:"

"The world needs ditch diggers, too."

Personal Business Day Tomorrow!!

I am taking tomorrow off. I have some personal business to attend to and with 90 + sick days on account, I am going to start using them when I have "PERSONAL BUSINESS" to attend to.

"Personal business is nobody's business but MINE!" (at least as far as administrators are concerned) - Texas Truth

Eleven Days and Graduation Duty Left

"I AM COUNTING THE DAYS." - Texas Truth

I Am SO SICK Of School

"SUMMER CANNOT GET HERE SOON ENOUGH!!!" - Texas Truth

2 Weeks of School Left

"I CAN'T WAIT!"- Texas Truth

I Am Tired Today!!!

As I stated in previous posts, my school completed the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) last week. I was back teaching my regular classes today and as I predicted, there was not much enthusiasm from the students.

I do wonder about their lack of motivation, but I can understand their lack of "get up and go."

After being hammered on for 7-plus months about TAKS, they are tired. In fact. I AM ALSO TIRED.

I had them work a review sheet that I had set aside for the substitute I was suppose to have today. I started feeling better late Sunday, so I canceled the substitute and came to work this morning.

Student look long and hard for the end of the spring semester. I remember when I was in school. Summer time meant family trips, going to the swimming pool, baseball and a general and overall time of R&R.

As a etacher, I understand their eagerness for summer to get here. After this year, I will most likely be more appreciative of it's appearance than the students.

"School's out for summer." - Alice Cooper (well, almost)

Off Day Tomorrow

I am taking a "sick day" (cough, cough) tomorrow. My Lovely Bride and I are going away for the weekend. See everyone when we get back.

"Always take a sick day when you are not sick. That makes it worth it." - Texas Truth