"That's Not How We Do It In India"
Jan. 19th, 2005 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaWhy are all the Hindu and Muslim kids hanging out in my room all of a sudden?
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Had a bit of excitement recently - came to school Tuesday morning to find the art/shop/ROTC building thoroughly tagged with what appeared to be gang territory markings. (It wasn't artistic enough to be a solo tagger, and some of the "stock" phrases were there.) Then there was a fight that may or may not have involved a weapon in the cafeteria just before classes started. The district decided that scouring the graffiti off the building was their high priority for that morning, so the building smelled like the gunk they use as thinner for spray paint all morning and cleaning fluid all afternoon.
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The state of Texas has picked up as one of their "lucky" ones - we're doing a TAKS Exit-level ELA Field Test tomorrow. Yet another instructional day largely lost to standardized testing. *puke*
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Last week, the junior class voted on one of four nominated students to send to some internship thingy in D.C. One of my kids, Choir, was one of the two who made it to the run-off. He was beaten by a football player, and a number of my kids are up in arms about it. Several advisories decided not to vote, or weren't given an opportunity to do so by their advisory teachers, so it was a poorly run election even if the kids are wrong and there was no unfair campaigning going on. It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of this.
Oh, and Science Fair is tomorrow, too.
I shall stop procrastinating and go grade now.
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Had a bit of excitement recently - came to school Tuesday morning to find the art/shop/ROTC building thoroughly tagged with what appeared to be gang territory markings. (It wasn't artistic enough to be a solo tagger, and some of the "stock" phrases were there.) Then there was a fight that may or may not have involved a weapon in the cafeteria just before classes started. The district decided that scouring the graffiti off the building was their high priority for that morning, so the building smelled like the gunk they use as thinner for spray paint all morning and cleaning fluid all afternoon.
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The state of Texas has picked up as one of their "lucky" ones - we're doing a TAKS Exit-level ELA Field Test tomorrow. Yet another instructional day largely lost to standardized testing. *puke*
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Last week, the junior class voted on one of four nominated students to send to some internship thingy in D.C. One of my kids, Choir, was one of the two who made it to the run-off. He was beaten by a football player, and a number of my kids are up in arms about it. Several advisories decided not to vote, or weren't given an opportunity to do so by their advisory teachers, so it was a poorly run election even if the kids are wrong and there was no unfair campaigning going on. It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of this.
Oh, and Science Fair is tomorrow, too.
I shall stop procrastinating and go grade now.
