It's like my children are growning up

I got this email from my mom today with pictures of Tycho (whose name is now Thomas). Wow. I don't think I would have believed you if you told me this is the same cat.
My baby kittens are all old now.

Rants

So, Napoleon Dynamite is on HBO and I'm too tired to move to turn it off. Here are my questions.
1. Why do people think this idiotic movie is funny? Don't get me wrong, I think a lot of stupid stuff is funny, but I see no point in this movie.
2. When is this movie supposed to be set? He has a fucking Trapper Keeper for a binder -- I had one of those in first grade! However, some of them people look pretty contemporary.
3. He's just obnoxious and not funny and borderline retarded. He's a pathetic high school loser. Those people are annoying -- there's a reason no one wants to be their friend -- they're fucking obnoxious!
4. Why did he get another movie role? Who the hell wants to watch him? There's kind of a reason socially inept and ugly people don't get TV and movie roles -- no one wants to watch them!

I hate Napoleon Dynamite!

Okay, that's all I can think of right now in the first ten minutes of this stupid movie!

Now it's time to go and return library books -- but I don't want to, I'm tired.

2013

We got the preliminary SOL scores from last year this week. We passed, but just barely. Only like 67% of our kids passed the writing test and 73% passed the reading. Combine the scores, and we averaged 70% (exactly what we needed in order to make some stupid NCLB or VDE acronym) ((You think your job has a lot of acronyms, I think mine has more...AYP, NCLB, SBTS, LD, ED, GT, MYP, IBMYPMPP, FCPS, SRI, SSR, PRESS, SOL, etc, etc, etc)).

We also learned that under the current legislation (which I keep hearing is going to change) that by 2013 100% of the students will have to pass the SOL (or equivalent nationalized test) in order for our school to be accredited. I will be 31 when this happens and about the right age to take some time off and have babies. This is my plan. Older teachers are planning to retire and the younger ones are going to go and have children. Sucks to be a new teacher then!

How the hell are 100% of the special ed kids at my school (who come in to middle school reading on a third grade level) going to pass a test testing eight grade standards? I hate you VDE and GWB!

Our school already has taken in three students who were displaced by hurricane Katrina. I think this number will grow within the next couple of weeks. This is good because they are taking enrollment numbers in a few weeks to determine how many teachers we get (or lose). I think the losing teachers isn't going to happen so much at my school considering that we are already at least four hundred students over projected enrollment and have already lost one of the student computer labs to make a classroom for another teacher. I guess our enrollment must be up in self contained sped and esol because I only have about 84 students on my roster and my co-teacher (who is new this year, her name is Robyn) only has about 15. Last year I seem to remember having more. Oh well, maybe more people will transfer in like they did last year. My fifth period has 15 kids again. Hopefully they won't include as many obnoxious children as they did last year. I almost feel like I'm getting shafted -- there are two honors classes on our team this year during fifth period and I get none of them. Lesigh. Oh well. At least I'm not taking it as bad as some other teachers who like were really complain instead of just ribbing other teachers about it.

Ugh. School starts in three more days.