Sorry I've been slack on posts lately. I have some pictures from Chicago uploaded, but I haven't gotten around to posting them either. I've been in an Aircraft Battle Damage Repair class since last week and it continues this week. It's been a good class so far. I'm actually having to use some of my engineering equations and design repairs for this class. It has been pretty demanding in terms of time so I haven't been wanting to post when I get home. Hopefully I'll be posting more this coming week than I did the previous 1-2 weeks.
Christi has been busy working on things for her classroom. They start back next week! Crazy that time has been moving so fast this summer. Christi is going to be very busy this year for several reasons. First, the obvious, she's pregnant. Moving around all day is going to be tough, especially as the year goes on. Then she will have to come back to school after being off for 6-8 weeks and get her kids prepared for the CRCT. Second, she was made the 1st grade team leader (after only 1 year there!) so she's in charge of leading her fellow 1st grade teachers and has a lot of standards and action items that she has to make sure get done throughout the year. Third, they increased the maximum allowable class size as part of budget cuts (so as not to hire more teachers.) She can have up to 24 kids; she had 22 last year. Fourth, there is a new teacher from another school that she will have to help get acquainted to the school. And to make things even easier for the teachers, the state of Georgia has furloughed teachers for 3 days this year (since they make so much money - how about they get rid of a lot of the dead weight board members and front office do-nothings?!?!) 2 of those days were this upcoming Thursday and Friday (the 30th and 31st). Those 2 days were planning days for teachers, which doesn't sounds like a big deal, except that they now have 3 days instead of 5 to get ready for the students. Any of you who had teaching parents or spouses or are a teacher yourself know that the teachers do a lot of work on those days because there is a lot of things they have to do in order to be prepared for the kids. Genius idea.
On a side note, a school system in middle Georgia has decided to go to a 4-day school week in order to save money. Do you all think that is a good idea? I say no. It's hard enough for kids to remember things on Monday they did on Friday. How are they going to remember on Tuesday? Plus, all the homework in 5 days is now condensed into 4 days. Anyone who has taken a long college lecture or any class in general knows there is only so much you can absorb in 1 day. Repetition is needed, especially on the basic concept. I really think they are setting up this kids to fail with that decision. Yeah, you can meet the required hourly school hours for the year, but will they learn anything? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's stupid.
Have to go. Here's a quick picture of one of Landon's blankets we bought him. It's awesome. More to follow eventually.
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