It's Friday! For a 4 day week this has been a long one! Tuesday ended very badly! Gossip in the church is so hurtful! I wish everyone would just go straight to the individual instead of asking other people if they have heard this or that! I think people mean well most of the time. At least, I'd like to think that of my Christian friends.

Our Superintendent has called a district wide meeting after school next Wednesday. I'm sure it's going to be about budget cuts. I think she is going to tell us we have to start saving money in areas of the district. I could really give her some ideas on saving money. Not that I can see the whole picture or anything, but I do see ways on my campus.

How about getting rid of some of the programs that we are using, or not using, in the district? We pay a lot of money to Pearson for Benchmark testing that none of us has been able to access all year. You know what? Our kids are still learning what they are supposed to learn. We also pay for Curriculum Mapper. I, and the teachers I talk to, make their maps at the beginning of the year and don't look at them until the next year. Now, how is that helping my students. You know what? Our kids are still learning what they are supposed to be learning.

How about going to a 4 day week? Lots of schools and business's are doing it and it's saving them money. Here, we are so ahead on our minutes, that all we would really have to do is shorten lunch. Which should be done anyway. I know what you are saying. "What about my kid? What am I going to do with him on Fridays?!" Well, what did you do with him on Christmas break? I don't know when schools started catering to whatever the parents wanted to do. Schools used to just make the rule and that was how it was. The community adjusted. I long for those days when school was the most important thing a kid did and parents did whatever they had to do to keep them in school.

Anyway, I don't feel like this meeting will bring on the kind of changes we need. Yes, I have sadly lost faith in our Superintendent. I just pray that Wednesday she redeems herself.