Cat Portrait

Now that school is off for a week I spent most of the day in the classroom going over lesson plans, making an absurd amount of photocopies, and arranging things in neat piles around the room so everything will be ready to sort out and file away when I go back later this week. 

Then I got home and read an article at the top of the New York Times website headlined "Teachers Are Missing More School and There Are Too Few Substitutes," which contained the line:

Teachers, who get built-in breaks throughout the year and during the summer, have at times faced scrutiny from parents for missing school.


Hmmm. Gotta love those built-in breaks.