DeadpanAnn (old blogger version)

Today I have to go back to work, and I have no idea what we'll be doing in class. They failed the last test, so I need to reteach that material, but they're so far behind that I don't know how many more objectives I can reteach this year. Maybe I'll just go over it and then give them copies of the test they failed and make them work on it in groups or something. I dunno.

Funny how running from your problems never really puts any distance between you and them.

Getting up at 5 a.m. sucks a big one. I got up extra early thinking perhaps I would use the time to prepare for the day. Turns out the only way I know how to prepare is to drink extra coffee. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'd better get there earlier than usual in case my room is trashed.

Here's an uplifting article for you. It's in the Washington Post, and a friend of mine told me about it.

By the Mississippi Delta, A Whole School Left Behind.
Challenged by poverty, indifferent parents and transient teacher ranks, Como Elementary scored dismally on Mississippi's annual school tests.

I don't work there or live there, but Como is about 30 minutes from my home town of Nesbit, and I think some of the things they say about it in the article are true statewide, or almost statewide.

Today I'm going to focus on the kids who I think are listening. There are three of them. Maybe there are more.