The Big Desk

Of course it is a snow day, I was actually PREPARED for school today! Or was it the fact that I had planned on taking my laptop to school so I could write during the 3 hours of parent/teacher conferences that I need to sit through. Surely, no one will want to see me? I've only been there 1 week. I don't know the kids. I haven't graded anything! I don't even know how to take attendance on the school computer!!

And so, instead of writing anything useful, I am blogging, counting down the days for Bush-be-gone to occur, and putting things up on eBay to sell so I can pay a few bills.

OK. This latest crap of his http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-31-voa15.cfm really made me mad. I mean, DUH there are restrictions to the money. Isn't that what HE did to education with that Every Child Will Be Left Behind law? Didn't he take decisions out of teacher's and parent's hands with monetary strings attached? Aren't there arbitrary rules about test scores (which, if you have taken a statistics class or even have a logical BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD, you know are IMPOSSIBLE to attain!!!) attached to if a school will continue to obtain financial support from the government?

COME ON!!

I don't see the Bush twins in the army. Let's send them back over with my nephew when he goes for his SECOND TOUR OF DUTY to Baghdad! Let them see and smell the sites. Let them sweat it out and be terrified for their lives. Let them write to daddy and tell him about the realities of this war, which, if there was something for America at stake other than "face" or "pride" I MIGHT be willing to support.

I can't see anything from Bush's point of view any more, because it is impossible for me to stick my head that far up my ass!