Snowy evening

But not enough to do anything but mess up the roads. Typing worship minutes, putting in an avon order (after 26 1/2 years still doing that), typing the flower sheet for church for February and planning a Super Bowl party for a few friends. Geesh life is expensive and all they want to do is cut our benefits and have us take concessions. We fought so hard to be professionals and we make so much less than people in the business world with equal education and experience and now we are fighting to keep from drowning. The state would love to see our unions busted and new, young inexperienced teachers take over in the charter schools because they will work for so much less. After all we are just glorified babysitters who have to push their classes to pass MEAP, state standards and I am teaching Algebra, Geometry and things like changing fractions to percents and decimals to FIFTH GRADERS! They need to be able to convert metric to standard, measure and figure perimeter, area and volume, know figurative language in reading, analogies, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole, just to get started. We use to teach this stuff in 10th grade. Pretty soon our 1st graders will be doing exponential notations! It is what it is...I would love to have some of those legislators come and sit in my class for one day...oh wait, I forgot my kids don't speak English!