Apple Care

I got back my computer. It won't turn on and they erased my hard drive. I am sending it back.

Just about there

Well, I spent the whole day in my classroom today trying to get organized and I am just about there. (My friend Michelle watched Micah) My countertops are temporary, my sinks are missing, the cabinet people will be in to finish the detail stuff this week and district people have yet to patch any of the contruction left over spots. But on the bright side I only had one handle fall off of my new doors to my cabinets on the first day I used them. And I am one of the lucky ones since I guess the art people are saying that the district ran out of money to finish their classrooms. Tony, the art teacher asked me if I liked living in IKEA. Translation I think meant looks new but cheap quality.

Apple Care

I got my computer back from Apple. It was not fixed. I sent it back. I hope it is fixed when it returns again.

Oh my goodness

So today my assistant principal called me about a meeting tomorrow and included something about how my classroom has been gutted in order to put in new cabinets. After some denial since I was never notified about any of this I visited my classroom today to see the destruction myself. I am astounded. My classroom had cabinets covering three sides and they are indeed gone. I was going in tomorrow to run off copies and set everything up for the new year. Today I saw that half of my stuff is sitting in a pile in the middle of my room and the other half is in boxes in the other science teacher's room. I can't find anything. My storage room has also been gutted so that is all in another room as well. I don't think this is going to work out the way that I thought it was going to. I asked the workers today when they will be done and they said by Saturday. I am not holding out too much hope that anyone in constuction will get done on time but even if they did, my students arrive on Tuesday. Even if they finish on Saturday my stuff will still be sitting in a pile in the middle of my room and in boxes in another room. Sunday I am busy most of the day and Monday we have a staff meeting for half the day and the other half I have Micah. I am beginning to think that the first day of school will be having students help me move back into my classroom because I just don't have the time.

My other issue with this whole thing is how lame school districts spend money. No one ever asked us if we need new cabinets. Mine were great except for one wall in one place. The storage room cabinets were great. And they were old cabinets. Has anyone ever noticed that old stuff seems to always work better? We used to buy quality stuff. My cabinets would have lasted another 20 or 30 years. Now 'a days the district gets bids and then go with the lowest bidder. Do you know what that means? We get the cheapest, crappiest stuff. Our copy machine was almost broken more than it worked last year. Our air conditioning and heating units have a guy at our school almost daily fixing them. At Gunderson where I worked years ago they put in a new science room and the knobs were falling off after the first month. I am really hoping that my old but quality cabinets that worked great are not going to be replaced by crap. It is bad enough that they already wasted so much money replacing stuff that didn't need to be replaced but if I get something worse I think I will cry.

Coming soon

I just got back from an awesome cruise with my family and I was totally looking forward to showing off all of my pics but alas my computer is dead. It is being sent away to the apple people somewhere far away and hopefully they will know how to make it better. Until then I probably won't be getting much blogging done. Check back at a later date. Pictures coming soon... I hope.