Posts Tagged ‘LAUSD’

So often life is about the bad and the ugly.  Not today.
I’m helping three of my 5th graders apply to private schools for next year.
This is a private school in LA:

And this is a public one:
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
The application process is, as you might imagine, lengthy and complicated.  Not quite a [...]

Driving home from school today, I waited at an interminable red light tapping my fingers and half-listening to Scott Simon interviewing some expert about some new type of robot-armed eco soda machine of the future. Blah blah blah blah. I knew it was important, something about fluorocarbons and the ozone layer and blah blah blah [...]

The marathon is over.  The Wild Things have gone home (or what passes as home).  All that’s left is bits of ratty paper and crumbly memories strewn through my room, through me.  A school year.  Nine-ish months of intense proximity.  Just like a pregnancy, only with 20: viginitituplets?  Puts Octomom to shame.
As I look back [...]

They came to cart our couches away today.  One month after declaring them a fire hazard.
Our Very Nice Custodian:  We’re here for the couch.
Kids: No!!!
Me: Now guys.  You know it has to go…
Kids:  Why?
Me:  It’s veryveryvery dangerous.
Kids: Why?
Me: Don’t you know, couches have a disease.  It’s called random spontaneous combustion.  Can you repeat that?
Kids:  Random.  [...]

We finished Day 2 of testing today.  Day 2 was much better than Day 1 when my well prepared students seemed like they’d been sucker-punched, even though we’d spent the whole year covering the material (antonyms, synonyms, word usage, phonics, syllabification, reading comprehension, etc.).  And we’d spent the whole year doing a bit of test [...]