Warm again!

Outside, it isn't warm but it certainly is indoors, ever since the furnace decided to turn on moments after the repairman arrived. He left quite quickly and arranged for another man to come today, just to do a more thorough check. No problem was found. Just ghosts in the works!

Today I came face to face with the idiocy of my school. I have managed to avoid it for most of the year by being sick and being there as little as possible. In order to be paid more next year, we have to prove that we show a 'positive professional ethos'. It doesn't matter how good a teacher we may be, if we don't have this positive professional ethos, we can forget it. Some people have spent so much time trying to prove this, that the time spent must have effected their teaching.

I've been thinking of where I stand on this rubric of positiveness. (Is there such a word?) I'm sure that my head of school would say that I am unsatisfactory because I always point out the absurdities in the world of ACS. I've decided to say that I am 'distinguished' in my positiveness. (Tongue firmly planted in cheek!) I am in the process of writing my rationale now and it revolves around the positive model I set by going to school all through my cancer treatment. I am an inspiration to all. (See Mary Jane, I have gotten over the guilt of using the cancer. It must be good for something!) If I don't receive the money, I may consider the possibility that they are discriminating against a disabled person. What fun!