Worried

Ugh...so it was election day yesterday and the voters in my school district elected a cuckoo bird to the school board.  This is a woman who has stated on her website that she wants to bring accountability and transparency "back" to Kings and yet when given the chance to participate in last Wednesday's forum to meet the candidates, she declined to come.  She was apparently advised not to because she was going to have to answer questions she didn't want to answer. This is a woman who supposedly wants to "save taxpayers money" (and keep teachers from being paid fairly) and yet she brings lawsuit after lawsuit against the district she now is sitting on the school board for.  (Sorry for ending that with a preposition). She recently, supposedly subpoenaed all kings emails for any one sending a message with her name in it. I'm not sure that an upstanding citizen who is transparent herself, would be so paranoid.  This does not bode well for my district and I think the voters are going to rue the day they made this mistake. Idiots.

In other news - my meetings yesterday were good and bad.  The morning session was very good, interesting and disturbing.  It was an Active Shooter Training...helping to prepare us for a possible shooter in our building.  There was a lot of information from the Columbine and VT shooting...scary stuff but stuff that we should know to try and prevent these things.  I have a student currently that scares the shit out of me and meets all the characteristics of a shooter.  UGH.

The other meetings, in the afternoon, well, two of the three were a complete waste of my time.  I will be telling the admins this but of course they won't listen and we'll deal with the same thing next year.  What made my meetings yesterday worse, however, was being in the meetings with one particular English teacher who is just rude, stupid, and LOUD!  I don't know how people deal with her.  She acts like a 5-year old most of the time and the rest of the time she's condescending...though she has no right to be.  I'm just glad she is retiring after this year. 

K - well, that's all I've got.  I'm going to hit Costco after school today and maybe Home Depot as well to get the floor tile...depends what the weathers doing.  K - Later! (Spell check isn't working...sorry if I've effed something up.)