School?
My little sister is a freshman in high school. Granted this makes me feel old on a daily basis but what can you do when your little sister is 15 years younger than you? As my father refers to her, she's the oops baby.Anyways, my complaint lies with the school. Apparently, they don't go to school anymore. Why do I know this? Because they're always out of freaking school. There's always a reason too. It's too cold, it's too hot, it's too rainy, it's too windy, it's too sunny, there's too many clouds in the sky.
Heck, I found out this week, they only were starting school at 10:30 to get out at 10:45. Ok, the 10:45 may be a bit of an exaggeration, but they do start at 10:30. It has something to do with testing.
Bitter? Yes I am. When I was in high school, heck when my other sister was in high school, the attendence sheets were long pieces of thick paper with all the days of the week on there. We knew when vacation days were because they were blacked out. During the third 9 weeks, there never were black days. Now they never have full weeks of going to school. The Japanese are so far ahead of us now we'll never catch up.
They have more inservices/teacher work days than well i don't even have an analogy for that. And I know nothing goes on on days like that. How? My buddies Nate and Mark were teachers and so they took a Playstation 2 to their class room because they were all caught up because they TOOK stuff HOME to grade.
Maybe it's our superintendent. And I've got a beef with him because he's so anti-baseball. For me, basketball is my favorite sport followed closely by football, then baseball is a fairly close third. Herein lies the problem. Our school does not have a baseball team. I think there are only two other schools in our league without baseball. It's completely and totally sad. Not because we don't have the sport, but because there is an interest and there is talent. I know there's talent thanks to the summer program which the 15-16 year old team took second at state without a high school program. Our super has said that we don't need baseball. Uh, hello? Buy a clue. I bet if he had sons that wanted to play, we'd have baseball.
Thirdly, I found a new species of fish. It's called a Saber-Fanged Largemouth bass. I've caught many bass in my life. The proper procedure for hook removal is to grasp the fish by the bottom lip and remove the hook. I did exactly that and pulled the hook out. Being the semi-conservationist that I am, I went to release the fish with a flick of my wrist to get him into deeper water. When I did this, his fangs that I did not see tore open a small cut on my thumb. I was shocked as I've never had a bass do that. This must be a new strain or they accidentally crossed a bass with a pirahna.
It's time to play softball again.
posted by Rusty @ 8:00 AM
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