I borrowed this image -- copyright goes to the artist on DeviantArt -- because it made me laugh. I seriously need laughs this weekend since it's right before the ELA TAKS ... and the scores on that test will impact my evaluation AKA "Classroom Effectiveness Indices," which is number-crunching to "prove" how good I am in the classroom as an education ... After the TAKS tutoring at Saturday school, I don't know whether to be very worried or merely concerned. These 10th graders are very blase about the whole test-taking stakes, and their scores will rate our school for the next 2 years while Texas brings out a whole new (much harder) test. The schools are losing money, and TEA is developing a new test to "prove" how badly the districts are educating their "stakeholders," AKA students.
Four Winds Faire opens next weekend, followed by another week of school before we're out for spring break. We have kittens to distribute, older cats to find fosterage, and tons more tasks to fill several weeks -- and Faire!!! We get to see the Fairemily once more and catch up on the changes, major and minor, that occured during the last 12 months. I only hope the weather stays good for most of the run ... A repeat of this month's killer cold would be awful, though we have had snow on occasion. We shall see.
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