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Entries from August 2009

Respect your elders

August 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

No matter which side of the health care debate you are on, the town hall meetings have been interesting to say the least. What I have noticed more than anything is the apparent inability of our “leaders” to deal with us common folk. Seriously, in some of the meetings our representatives have been astonished that [...]

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Training…1, 2, 3

August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

As summer is winding down educators are going back to school and that means “back to school workshops” for most of us. Recently I sat through a two day session to to learn how to use some new technology in our district.
Yeah, sat through is what I meant to say.

We literally sat…for hours…not touching the [...]

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