We have lots of big things happening in the next few weeks, some of which could directly affect my future in a huge way. Today’s the vote for the one-cent sales tax renewal. If it doesn’t pass, my mom loses a MASSIVE chunk of her salary, I lose a good part of mine, the over-age kids I teach will lose the community based programs and extra help they need, schools won’t get repaired and our kids will continue to have to attend school in dumps, and highly-qualified teachers/educators will lose up to 20% of their salaries… which means all of our best teachers will leave our parish. Ultimately, business and economy in BR will fall because no one will want to come here without an educated enough labor force. Pretty much it will just suck.
Also, next Saturday I am taking a huge test toward my certification. If I don’t pass, I won’t get accepted into the program this summer, and may not be able to come back to teach in the fall. I know it’s in God’s hands and I have been studying for 6 weeks, but it’s a test on things that education majors get taught over the course of years… and I’ve had to learn in just weeks. Plus I will have my interview with the program in the next couple weeks. They have already received 3-4x the amount of applications that they usually do, so many people will get turned away.
Everything with the baby’s going great! She’s still so active that even the doctor comments on it in the 2 minutes he messes with my tummy every week now. There was concern that she was breeched, so I went in for another ultrasound Thursday and got to see my precious little angel again. It was wonderful! I can’t wait to see her in real life!! And praise God, she’s faced exactly the way she’s supposed to be.
The state-wide LEAP and iLEAP tests are this week, so please keep the kids in your prayers. There’s so much pressure on the 4th graders- if they don’t pass, they have to go to summer school and then take it again. If they don’t pass that time, they repeat fourth grade. Keep in mind a lot of these kids have already been retained, so continuing to hold them back doesn’t really help much. That’s why I have a kid in my class who’s about to be 14 and he’s in 5th grade. I turned 14 the summer before my freshman year in high school!
Thanks for all the prayers and support from all of you out there. You are awesome blog readers!!
I had not realized the vote was on Saturday until reading your blog, so I was able to make it to vote, b/c of it. Just wanted to let you know.