Some questions....

Why do schools have a two hour delay when it is 0 degrees, but no delay when it is 2 degrees? I feel so bad for some of my students that literally have to walk from one side of Beaver Falls all the way to the other side of town just to get to school.

If your child takes ritalin, and it has been proven that the ritalin effectively works, then why do you let the prescription run out and not give your child his ritalin for days and days and days? I don't know, maybe write yourself a little note to remember to keep the prescription up to date. By the way, ritalin doesn't work instantly...it takes a few days, or sometimes weeks, of taking it consistently for it to be effective.

Why do republicans and democrats bicker back and forth and back and forth like four year olds? Work together for once in your life and get this economy fixed before we are all at the market trying to sell our wares like they did during the Great Depression.

How does combining school districts raise test scores? The lovely Ed Rendell went to Washington proposing that Pennsylvania reduce its number of school districts from 500 to 100. A bunch of opinionated anonymous goofs put their two cents in about this issue on the Beaver County Times website. One knucklehead in particular stated that if we combine all of our school districts, we could get rid of teachers and then raise our test scores. How in the world are test scores just going to miraculously go up by combining schools? And furthermore, why do we want to get rid of teachers? I thought the important thing about fixing the economy was to create more jobs, not lay people off. Because of financial reasons, we have lost so many staff members at my school over the years. When I first started working there, three reading specialists, two math specialists, and a few other teachers that we called "IST" teachers who were just around to help out. We now are down to one reading specialist and one math specialist. And we have more pressure than ever before to raise test scores. As my boss says, "they keep giving us more stuff to do, but they keep taking away what we need to do it." I'm not complaning because I love what I do and I love my job, but I just get heated when people who don't know what they are talking about put their two cents in...Rendell included.

Why would Corynne rather dribble a basketball than sit down and read a book? I have no comments about this one. People who know me well, would say that she is just like me and what would I expect with three older brothers. But her three older brothers and I all read. :-) I told her today that she is not going to be a pretty dummy!

That's all for now. :-)
Go Steelers!