the word for today is.....

SNAFU..........in case you are brain dead, it stands for "situation normal, all "flubbed" up."

Hey trying to be a little nice here---it attempts to be a family blog.......

So the WV legislature is tackling, again, the problem of trying to get the county school systems to adhere to the required number of instructional days. Problem number one, we get snow and ice around here in the winter. Some years not so much, but the last couple of years or so, when it has hit, it has hit. Problem number two, school, by law, cannot begin prior to August 26th, nor end later than June 8th or 9th. Problem number three is we have a bunch of dumbasses in the legislature---hey I did NOT vote for them--you know my philosophy, if in office, vote them out......

The way I see it is we can get those 180 instructional days real easy......cut out the doggone teacher in service days----that gets you about 5 or 6 days easily. Next take away the OSE---or outside school environment days----which are just basically holidays for teachers and students with no actual purpose to them ........

When my generation was in school----I graduated HS in 1985----teachers knew going into the system that they would be "underpaid" for the amount of work they had to do. Granted, then they had to actually work. They had to grade papers and manually enter them into a gradebook, not some stupid computer program which they can then blame for not running correctly, thereby not giving the student the correct grade---been there done that. If they could not get it done on their planning periods or whatever, then teacher had homework too. A teacher actually had to deal with parents face to face, as well as maintain discipline in the classroom. Ah the days of corporal punishment. Not that I want a return to paddling, but maintaining the county codes of behavior would be nice, instead of a teacher or principal deciding on a whim that such and such behavior is no longer acceptable in one group of students but perfectly permissable in another...but I digress......

Now teachers complain that they are very underpaid, but they do less work.....go figure........


This is just the start of the ranting, folks........I'm getting my groove back on....must be the smell of rancid legislators..........