Crappy "Professional Development"

So Natalie and I spent the day (8:30-3) wasting away in a room at Fulton Learning Center...wish we'd been wasting away in margaritaville...no luck. It was a session described as ESL (English as a 2nd Lang.) Strategies...and was clearly a presentation for an ESL curriculum...because we have money for that...no, nor do I have enough ESL kids to have a totally seperate curriculum for them. I mean did I really want to spend one of my summer days listening to someone talk about how great their books are, and these activities would go great with our books, blah, blah, blah! How the hell am I suppose to use your damn activities if all you give me is one sample practice book or reader when I have more than one kid who needs it, or if I need three more pieces in your oh-so-fancy collection to complete the activities you have presented!? Had we known that the day would have been 80% of the new curriculum you can't afford presentation, 15% statistics we already knew, and 5% actual useful activities and/or developmentally appropriate things for our kidos...then WE WOULDN'T HAVE GONE! I mean holy-hell Mr. Superintendent no one and I MEAN NO ONE wants to spend their summer attending 12 hours of professional development, let alone prof. dev. that is not even useful! Someone should kick him in the ass right out the TPS door and not let him return...he's a total and utter moron! I am going to have to tell Blaze to blog about him so he will get fired...I am no good at harnessing super human strength these days. Thanks for letting me rant...I feel much better now...hopefully the rest of my day/evening will be fantastic-going out to McNellie's to celebrate Mere's big 2-5. At least I know the evening will be more productive than the day today-yeah for beer!