According to Pollen.com if you have allergies, as I do, you will be SUFFERING MISERABLY for the next few days. Thanks to the inordinate amount of rain that has caused plants to go into full-on bloom and not to mention molds, as well as pollen that are making allergy sufferers like myself feel like hell!
So,
if you're in my situation,
grab your claritin, allegra, or benadryl
and start the anihistamine binge!
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I don't know how many fellow educators are out there in blog-land, but if you're like me, you have been studying for another test that supposedly measures our smarts. For the past month, I have been living in CSET hell studying and studying for a test that doesn't measure my ability to teach, but rather if I am a good test taker, as well as my long term memory skills. IF, you have any sense, you will stay in the state that you live in and get your credentials to teach there, of IF, you're in CA, you will move to another state. Ever since that moron G.W.Bush passed that No Child Left Behind Act, schools, teachers, educators throughout the state of CA are rushing to fix the unfixable. If poor peforming schools were capable of remedying their academic woes, don't you think they would have done so already? Ultimately, poor performing schools (ie. tests) are blaming teachers and principals for the fact that Johnny, Mary and Bobby can't score high enough to impress the bigwigs. When are the teachers/principals not held accountable, and the parents are? When is the state held accountable for the lack of funding and supplies? Let's not even touch the issues of economic woes, as well as language barriers that a good percentage of CA students are faced with. What a vicious cycle. It'll never end. All of this for 30 grand a year.
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If you're not from San Diego,Detroit, or any of the other highly populated Iraqi communities, you are probably not aware of the fact that Iraqi Americans are going in droves to vote in the upcoming elections in Iraq. Um, I'm not quite sure, why that is. If they live in the USA, why are they voting for government officials in Iraq? I mean, since when did Vietnamese Americans vote for the next socialist leader in Vietnam? Have you heard of Mexican, Peruvian or Russian citizens living in the USA voting for their next president? Now, I understand that there are Americans living and working in other countries that vote for the president here, but isn't that different? Is it that these Iraqis intend on moving back to Iraq? If they don't plan to, they why do they care? Are they allowed to do so because this is the first democratic type of election in Iraq? I'm bewildered. Just a little food for thought
