looks like someone has a bad case of the Thursdays

This has been a very emotionally draining week. Some of you may have seen on Facebook some of the issues that we've been having up here. 2 weeks ago our School Board voted not to renew the contracts of our Principal (with +16 years of experience in our district alone) and our Vice Principal (2 years in our district). There has been no reason given and the School Board refuses to give one. Neither administrator has any negative evaluations and the School Board says they won't look at their evaluations. Andrew and I are both very sad about this as we both really like them. Tuesday night we went to a school board meeting where we sat through three hours of comments asking for their contracts to be renewed or at least a reason why they weren't. The school board did agree to discuss the issue again in two weeks, however they did not say they would do a revote. We are sad that these administrators might be leaving and are still unsure about our future in the district. It appears that this is a large case of small town politics and it has spread quickly throughout the community.

On a positive note, Andrew started playing with the Pep Band at Varsity basketball games. He has been having fun with the Barri Sax and being with the other players. It is a bad mixed of students and community members. They have the weekend off, but will play again next weekend. I also started taking a pottery class at UAF-NWC that my friend Tara teaches. I have made two pieces so far and am enjoying it a lot. If you have any requests of things you'd like, let me know! I am also teaching swimming lessons again. I (along with Audrey) am teaching a Parent and Tot lesson Wednesday nights. There are 5 kids with their parents and is a ton of fun. The water is nice and warm for us and the kids like singing songs and splashing around.

Audrey got her first band-aid tonight, quickly followed by her second and third. I cut a little too close to the skin when cutting her finger nails and she got a bloody finger. We put a band aid on it, and she took it off. So, we had to add a second and third one on to make sure it didn't come off! Oops. I wish I had some new pictures to show you all but we haven't been home at night to take any. Hopefully this weekend.

Wishing everyone a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend.