Wednesday

Of tardiness

I have been late to school more this year than the other 10 years combined. Our schedules revolve around Kenzie’s and when she wakes up. Now that she is sleeping through the night, well mostly through the night, I have often had to hold her and cuddle her while Kristie hops in the shower and while Gail gets ready for the day. As a result, I often don’t head for work sometimes until as late as 7:20, which puts me here about 7:55 or later, depending on the traffic (and that crew headed to Digi Key is a stubborn bunch. If there is a trace of ice on the road, you can bet at least one car is dead set on slowing down to around 45. I won’t even mention the idiots who pull out in front of me at the elevator in St. Hilarie or at the junction of the Hwy 32 and what is known as the “St. Hilaire cut across to Grand Forks”).

So on Monday, I was a good 10-15 minutes late for the big meeting with the superintendent on budget reductions and cuts.

Not good.

Of course, I was not alone. There were a few who didn’t even bother to show up. I seriously though about skipping it too, but as co-president of the EA, I should have been there.

It was no coincidence that we got an email reminding us about our duty time.

Rightfully so too.

But out of all the days to be late, I had to pick that one!

When I mentioned this to Kristie, she said, “Well, what about the hours you put in on Sunday correcting papers all day.”

That’s true too. No one sees those hours though.

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Conferences are tomorrow. Twelve hours worth of them. So far I have 8 parents signed up.

What to do with the rest of the time?

PLENTY!!

I never lack anything to do.

Monday we also had conferences, from 4-8. I think I had about six parents come in. But I was able to get my room cleaned and organized (trust me. That’s no small task.) In fact, I had not cleaned or organized since fall conferences, which seem just like a few weeks ago.

On my agenda for tomorrow:

Grade essays for College Comp.

Read drafts for College Comp and College Comp 2.

Grade my Lit & Lang 11 tests on “The Crucible,” which they are taking today.

Read some of my new book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.

Get some writing done.

Lesson plan for the second half of third quarter.

Put some Keynote presentations together for the next set of essays in my college classes.

Write three letters of recommendation for students.

Put together a couple of paragraphs for a biography to submit to the editors of the text in which my essay “The McEssay: Choking the Life Out of Student Writing” is being published in.

Well, those are just the ones I’ve thought up off the top of my head. Who knows what else will present itself.

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