Swimming in the Pensieve

2005.09.28 - 23:10

For those following the OpenDocument Standards move by Massachusetts, you simply must read this work of art: (more…)

In a fit of administrative criminality and callous fiscal irresponsibility, LBUSD laid-off 12 workers while giving certain non-union represented managers, supervisors, and principals a total of $6.8 million in raises and bonuses over the next two years. (more…)

2005.09.22 - 18:00
We just got back from a CAliVA school outing at the LA County Fair (more…)

Yesterday was the traditionally-celebrated first day of Autumn (The Autumnal Equinox)…for those who keep track of supposedly inconsequential things like that. (more…)

It’s time to set the story straight for those who depend too heavily on what the school district has to say to you.

Back on the 9th of this month, I noticed the following bit of Rah! Rah! text on the LBUSD website. (more…)

2005.09.20 - 17:35
Only today did it occur to me that, at our last parent-teacher, face-to-face meeting, Lisa Watson–our assigned teacher for the girls–asked what size CAliVA polo shirts to order for the girls. She presented lucid safety reasons for the school-affiliated shirts to be worn at school outings and functions, but never asked us to pay for the shirts. (more…)

The lesson I was teaching my two youngest daughters, about René Decartes, was interrupted by a phone call from Guillermo Jimenez, of Millikan High, at 12:03 this afternoon. Permit me to tell you what another one of LBUSD’s “good, little, policy-drones” has to say about the provisos and quid-pro-quos of a FAPE in LBUSD; while he waits for a pat on his head from the table scrap gods. (more…)

Lately– most of the day, actually–this song, from my youth (1975), has been echoing endlessly through my grey cells: (more…)

Ever wonder why LBUSD works the way it does (like a bunch of drunk idiots, out for a joyride in a stolen car)? Stop wondering and take a good look at this analogy to the LBUSD culture. Any system wherein idiots are rewarded functions in this very way, and LBUSD is certainly the best example of an idiot-rewarding system that I can think of. (more…)

Once in a while, I take a wander through some of the articles to be found on LBReport.com. Not because I want something approximating bluntly-delivered truth–which I prefer, as a matter of fact–but, because I want to keep up on the run-of-the-mill perspective of the East Long Beach inhabitants. I did so today, and happened upon a newly-posted editorial. (more…)