The other day I’d received my preliminary “pink slip” (actually a letter on white paper, but you get the idea). Today I got the official one, complete with a whole page of mental health and job resources. Oh, joy of joys. This one I had to sign for. But the principal again said not to panic or worry.
The pink shirts are that across the district (somewhat, but big-time in my school) teachers and staff wore pink shirts today in solidarity or support for those who got pink slips. Angela told me about it yesterday so I wore one as well, with black pants since I’m one of the Pink Slip-ees.
I had a sub yesterday, of course. But we are trained to be prepared for subs, especially right before a break. So my schedule was written on the board, and my lesson plans in the notebook so you simply do the first one, turn the page, do the next one, etc. By the notebook were letter trays with labels large enough to see from anywhere in the room: Writing, Science, SFA, Math. In each was whatever was needed to do the lessons. I got to school today and the various classes on the schedule had a check mark next to them, as is the children’s custom when a class is finished. But something wasn’t quite right. So when I went to pick them up from the playground, I got the story: THE SUB TOLD THEM STORIES THE ENTIRE DAY!!! Scary stories! They were very impressed! I told them I hoped they enjoyed it because he was never setting foot in my room again! Geez! And the point of having lesson plans ready was what exactly?
I was looking at the “dashboard,” which is a feature of this blog site. Nathan told me that he was going to link his blog to mine, but I noticed that someone else had. I followed the link to that person’s blog: Stacy’s blog. I may tried what she tried. She liked this site and thought it was the best of the ten she saw! I’m interested in reading more of her blog, since she obviously has good taste 
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