I just finished reading this one - good book. It's the story of a lady who leaves her job with the newspaper and takes a job teaching school on Chicago's South Side. She doesn't have a teaching degree but because the City of Chicago can't find enough teachers, like a lot of other places, they have an internship program to get you in after jumping through a bunch of hoops. After she's in the classroom she has to start dealing with unreasonable expectations and help that was promised but doesn't show up along with all the problems the students bring with them. I found the book especially interesting since I too taught at an inner-city school when I first started my career. It was nothing like what she had to go through, fortunately, but I definitely could relate. There's one line in the book that really hit home with me while she was summarizing what she had learned after being in the classroom for a while. "I learned that staff meetings in education are like hostage situations." I got a chuckle out of that one.
I got a few more pieces cut for the sled at the new gym. I'm planning on going in a little early today and getting a few more cut out. The bottom skis need a bunch of holes drilled in them to fasten the UHMV on and I need the hardware as well. I did a search for the UHMV and found a place that would cut customs sizes. Two pieces came to $45.00 for the material, but when all the rest of the charges were totaled up, it was $220.00. No go on that. I found stuff on Amazon that will work but I'll have to run it through the table saw and rip it down a little. I've only got three more weeks of school and I want to be able to weld it there, so I need to stay on it.
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