Happy Birthday Reidman!

#6.

I talked with Rian this morning and told him I couldn't believe Reid is six years old. It is probably time to consider trading him in.

Rian's school saga continues. JM's 4:30 Wednesday meeting was cancelled. It seems the head of the LISD Sciences curriculum succumbed to a recently diagnosed cancer. Rian said the Superintendent cancelled to attend funeral services. The Superintendent is scheduled for lunch Friday at the Dunbar campus.

Rian says he feels like things will stay the way they are. He believes the Superintendent is just wanting to visit with JM to encourage him. JM wants the opportunity to visit and see what the new Superintendent's vision is for education in LISD.

Dunbar, with JM at the helm, had shown improvement each year on their state mandated testing, until this year. For the first time scores went down and Dunbar received an unacceptable rating. JM, took this very personally. The Avalanche Journal has been relentless praising Hutch middle school and chastising Dunbar. Hutch does not have enough minority students to form a sub group, so none of their minorities are included in test results. At Dunbar, the minorities are the majority.

I told Rian that until they can convince their students that they are capable, administration is going to fight an uphill battle.

I think one thing that makes JM an outstanding Principal is that he identifies with his students. He told Rian he (JM) is one of these minority students who has been fortunate enough to pull himself out of his childhood peer group to be an educator, administrator.

Krl has continued to battle the trucks. Back hauls are still a wanted commodity. Yesterday she had one haul back to Denver City and the customer told her they might possibly have two more. When Krl inquired about the additional loads, the customer told her that the load she already had a confirmation on had cancelled. I think Krl was more disappointed than the truck driver.

It has been a hard two weeks!

She is beginning to look at other lanes which scares me to death. We barely survived the pay time frame last time we did that.

While the last two days have been better for me, today I have the humdrums. While I know that where Krl and I need to go will be revealed to us in due time, I find myself anxious and short.

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for all our blessings. I pray that YOU will continue to lead us where YOU want us to be. YOU are good. We lift up the kids step-Dad as he has his surgery today. We lift him and his doctors up that his procedure and treatment will be successful. YOU are good!