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Rami

Rami

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Good evening,

I wanted to pass along that life is getting real crazy this week, and for the next ten days or so, I will most likely not be around SOH, except briefly in the morning to approve downloads and whatnot.

So as far as any threads that need to be answered or anything, I will leave that to others for the next several days.

Hopefully, by the beginning of May, life will have calmed down enough so that I can work on CFS2 again, hop back on Skype, and relax a little bit.

Until then, I don't think I'll be around all that much.
 
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Seagull V,

I got your message, thank you so much for the support. :ernae:
 
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Good afternoon,

While I'm not back to being able to work on CFS2 very much yet, here's what happened to me the past three-plus weeks.

One of the schools in our district is on academic probation, and when that happens in your town's school, even if the high school is doing very well, the State's department of Education places the entire district under review. All of us teachers in the high school were asked to submit lesson plans and units to the state for review, and have inspectors in the classroom for observation. I hadn't written out my lesson plans on a state form in over a decade. You become so proficient and used to just having an idea and going with it that you stop using the forms after a while.

If I had to do just that, it wouldn't have been so bad. Because I am known for my writing abilities, the superintendent of my district asked me if I could write all the reports for the high school, working with the administration to proofread all the reports and help some other teachers, whose writing skills are marginal, present their reports to the review board.

I told the superintendent that I would not do such an endeavor without being hired as a contractor, because such a request was not anywhere in my job description. For the past four weeks (up until yesterday) I was involved with the project, and had to commit all my time and energy, aside from being at home, to help complete it.

This project is finished. Last night my wife and I went out for dinner and a night on the town, and I told my bosses in the district that I feel most at home as a teacher, not as an administrator. I simply love teaching, not paperwork and all the other politics you have to deal with. Yuck.
 
Good job Rami! With a wife that teaches and several friends in the profession, it has always surprised me that some teachers have a limited ability with writing.

In the army, I'm sometimes asked to proof read or rewrite documents. You'd think that a classroom teacher like you or a trigger puller like me would not be in such demand as authors and grammarians!
 
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