My roommate Red (well, former roommate, now that I'm living back at home) has this adventurous dad who does cool adventure-y things (gosh, aren't you in awe of my mad writing skillz?  I know I am).  And before I left lovely southern Oregon, he was determined to make me adventurous.  So they decided to take me down the Umpqua River in a Tahiti Kayak ( Read more... )

I have started to take down my classroom.  My photographs and little decorations are now gone from the walls.  It's difficult to look at.  It has also been difficult to have the seniors leave.  I had so many good seniors, and two of them were my newspaper editors, and they were fantastic.  Without them, the school paper would never have come into ( Read more... )

So our journalism class did not earn $470.  There was a mistake in (someone else's) calculations, and we only made $193.  So...  Anyone have an extra $200 laying around?

The next school board meeting is Monday, March 15 at 7 p.m. in the high school library.  I don't know what will happen, and I can't say that I am terribly optimistic, but I can't stop fighting this.

A week after the meeting, I finally received a letter which included the supposed reasons for my nonrenewal.  However, it seems to be as clear as mud ( Read more... )

Long story short:  I did not get renewed.

Simple as that.

Long story long:

I said my piece and then left the executive session, then the general session began, and I returned.  Students and parents showed up to the board meeting.  They were prepared to say their piece.  But before anyone could say anything, the board president moved the agenda item ( Read more... )

I am furious.  I could spit nails.  In the last ten minutes of the day, the principal stopped into my classroom to casually tell me he would NOT be recommending my renewal to the school board on Monday.  I just stared at him.  I finally asked why.  The previous conflicts, was the response.  I just stared again.  For minutes.  Then I asked if my ( Read more... )

This week I received a letter from my principal outlining the ways in which I have been "insubordinate and disloyal" (actual quote).

As you can imagine, this letter makes me feel horrible. I like to imagine the letter I would rather get from him:

Dear Loradona ( Read more... )

So here's the deal.  My life has entirely too much drama right now, but I think I need to let this out.

On Friday, my principal said that he had fielded complaints from parents about an editorial that ran in the school paper.  He objected to two portions of the editorial, and said that my choice to allow the article to run led him to question my ( Read more... )

Urgh ( Read more... )

I don't want to focus on negative stuff, but I have had some pretty unhappy things happen lately.  I'll tell you my unhappiness, and then I will tell you something funny, so you don't think I am always looking on the dark side, okay ( Read more... )