Whew!!!!
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We finally finished our week of professional development which turned out to be about 60% useful, a figure that was surprisingly high.
However, the scare of the week came on Friday afternoon when, whilst helping a colleague upload his grades to our brand new, professionally designed Johnnie Cochran school web site, I came within two clicks of inadvertently erasing the entire web site. Luckily, just as I was about to delete this strange directory of files (which subsequently turned out to be the root file system), I had the presence of mind to perform a simple check which thankfully prevented disaster from occurring. I then took a deep breath. Whew.
However, Friday did end more positively, as I gathered for a nice dinner with the ISSS-LA teachers and the three students who are almost halfway through their first year of private school. We ate dinner at Maggiano’s, this upscale Italian restaurant (ironically, where a former roommate of mine used to work) at The Grove. Our three students told us all about their first semester at their respective schools and it’s very cool to see how much they are loving it! After hearing about their academic courses, I’m very convinced of how rigorous they are, especially given the fact that our two native Spanish speakers are both currently earning B’s in Spanish!
I guess that’s no different than me earning B’s (and maybe C’s) when I took English in high school.
Themocracy
It’s a miracle you are able to run a computer with such a sub-par quality operating system and not blow up the whole world!