Nobody wants a goiter!!!

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving break is when the count down begins. We don't have school next Wednesday so 5 school days until they get 5 days off.

Jess have a basketball game last night. Well, I am not sure you could call it a game. They had several teams at North Polk and they all just played 2 - eight minute quarters. It was varsity only but on the bright side, Jessica got to start both quarters. I am not sure if she will start in the regular season varsity games but she was in the starting lineup last night. That is kind of cool.

Drew is back to having a morning practice today. He is up at 5:30 and I will take him over at 6. I am writing this in between the times so I may have to stop in the middle to take him over. His first game is Tuesday so it will be a good way to kick off the Thanksgiving break.

Work has been lame as of late. We don't really have any big projects going on and there is a bunch of little stuff that is just irritating. Report cards are being generated at the elementary school and it is ridiculous how paticular they are with the most insignificant stuff. That is one thing that I would say about working in the district. There is a big difference between the personalities of the staff in the buildings.

The High School staff has some people that just don't get it but for the most part the problems they have a "real" and are school driven. The Elementary School is the exact opposite. They complain about the most insignificant things you could imagine. An example of this: A few years back the Middle school didn't have air conditioning. The classrooms in August and September could get really, really hot. So hot at times we would close school. The elementary has air conditioning and even the ability to set the temp in each individual room. The buildings and ground director set it so they could only change the digital thermostat in their rooms between 68 and 72. You should have heard the complaining about not being able to make it cooler than 68. You would have swore they were being kept as indentured servants and the world was coming to an end. How could they teach in this terrible environment. Yet, across town, the middel school staff was sitting in 95 degree classrooms or hotter and not complaining at all.

There are many, many, many stories I could go on about. One other one, a teacher that taught at the elementary was moved to the middle school. The cord to hook her computer to the network was 15 feet long, she moved her computer 15 1/2 feet from the jack and wanted a longer cord. We told her to move her table over 6 inches and she would be fine. She went nuts, saying she would have to change her whole teaching style if she moved her computer!!!!

I could go on and on but you get the drift.

I think the rest of the week is pretty open. One meeting this afternoon and I think a tech directory meeting on Thursday but other than that it is a pretty clean schedule. Things will start to pickup again after Thanksgiving with all of the activities getting in full swing.

Nancy Sawyers son is ok. Has two broken legs, one a compound fracture with a lot of tissue and muscle damage, bleeding spleen that they aren't too worried about, cracked skull with a little bleeding but they aren't overly concerned with, a fractured bone in his neck and a bunch of scrapes and bruises. I am not sure how long she will be gone but we will have to rotate going over to that building for tech coverage a couple times a week.