Monday Stuff.

Rainy Days and Mondays…
Who would have thought that after all of that great park weather, we would be shivering and wet from Friday until today? I guess the March snow should have been an indication of things to come. I had a doctor’s appointment today. Got up really early this morning so I could get poked and stuff. Blood pressure is good though.

Wifeswap
I don’t really watch this show, and tonight I kind of figured out why. I was flipping through channels. One family had this whole etiquette thing going on, and the other one, well, let’s just say, they made me turn off the television and clean the family room. They were that bad. Trust me. The baby saw the children of this family running through the grocery store, touching things, pulling coupons out of the coupon holder and her eyes lit up. I looked her dead in the face and said, “Fuggetaboutit.” Cause her world will get WRECKED if she tries to run up in the grocery store like she is one of Bay Bay’s kids.

No Child Left Behind
Not that this was one of my favorite pieces of legislation (don’t you love how people make these great and lofty goals, and yet provide inadequate – and that’s putting it mildly – funding to accomplish them?), but did you know that states are excluding test scores from their No Child Left Behind compliance data? Now you can call this a coincidence if you want to, but a great number of these ommitted test scores are for children of color. This means that a state can skirt around the issue of an achievement gap altogether under the guise of not reporting insignificant minority data. Okay.