Okay, I cannot resist. It is no secret to readers of this blog that I am one of those rare breeds in education….a Republican school teacher (talk about your endangered species!!). Well I just watch Sara Palin give her acceptance speech at the RNC and was totally blown away. Everybody always talks about what a great orator Obama is but he has definitely met his match in this feisty governor from Alaska.
What I found very funny was that all the talking heads pretty much unanimously mentioned something to the effect
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I just learned that the Democratic National Committee has voted to allow Florida and Michigan to have full voting rights at their convention that starts today. As I understand it both of these states were told in no uncertain terms that if they moved their primaries to a date before New Hampshire (or some other predetermined line in the sand) they would loose voting privileges at the convention but they went ahead and held their primaries early anyway.
So the lesson learned from this is that rules really do not matter and if you whine and cry and shout
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Even though on the calendar it shows that I have now been in school for 2 weeks (3 if you consider all of the countless meetings I had to attend before the kids showed up), it was not until today that it became official. Here I am on a Saturday afternoon as my friends are off having pool parties and going to movies I am here at my favorite coffee shop grading papers.
As if I needed more proof in how this is a true vocation for me, I really do enjoy grading papers. Yes it is a lot of
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With a title like this I am sure you are thinking this is yet another Michael Phelps article. It is not. Oh sure I am just as blown away and proud of what Phelps did in this Olympics but believe it or not, his 8 gold medals is not what I will remember the most from the “Water Cube” in Beijing.
What I will remember are the actions taken by Dara Torres.
My admiration of Dara goes well beyond the fact that she has won 3 medals in her fifth
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