And how much are they reducing funding per student by to offer these cards?
I’m sitting over here with library budgets of $5 per student that haven’t gone up in the 20+ years I’ve worked in education when you can’t buy a whole book for less than $9 anymore (and those are early chapter books)
Once again, I have disillusioned a child by not rising to the not-so-surreptitious sniggering over a book title.
Student: This book has a bad word.
Me: *looks* *is nonplussed*
It’s a book about a whale named Moby Dick. That’s the title.
Student: *confounded*
Yes, I suppose, it’s just so boggling that those of us on the ground work so hard to actually make differences for kids and he’s just up there claiming things that are irrelevant to anything that would actually help.
*mumbles* with great power comes great responsibility *mumbles*
I simply don’t understand what he’s trying to achieve by claiming that he’s correcting things that either don’t need correction or were never an issue in the first place.
Report cards have always been issued in paper form. I have never seen them issued any other way. Not once. We get the third page back with parent signatures to put in the Ontario Student Record file. Teachers and principals spend 2 weeks printing & signing the damn things.
Prom went nowhere.
Some boards host it, MANY MANY OTHERS haven’t hosted it for liability reasons for more than 30 years. Students plan an execute it on their own.
Absolutely bewildered by the Minister of Education’s various declarations that things are happening that need to not happen when, when despite more than 20 years working in education, I’ve never seen these things universally happen.
See:
- “bring back prom”
- “paper report cards”
Have spent the week reading a story about poutine to students.
I desperately need to order poutine tomorrow.
I’d be curious to know that too.
I’ve never heard of an electronic one existing.
How do they get parent signatures to file in the OSR?
On this theme, I’m quite partial to
The Enemy by Cali
www.librarything.com/work/4343100...
For The Record:
I am against *waves hands*
_ALL_OF_THIS_
I’m afraid I don’t have the firm numbers to share—our board is small and I was invited to participate in the pitch and discussion process while the decision was being taken but was not made privy to specific $$ info.
Cost was less than HALF of what we were paying for L4U and their tech support has been reliable. Features have improved since we switched and there are a variety of modules you can add on if necessary.
My board has been using Insignia since November 2019. We switched from PowerSchool (L4U) at the time.
It has tremendous capacity that we have not yet maximized.
Transition was pretty seamless.
Can’t speak re: Follet.
Happy to answer further questions if needed.
Deeply curious about the new Wuthering Heights adaptation because over the course of many years and many tries, friendly AND scholarly discussions:
The Brontes Are Not For Me ™️
I know this. And yet…
Sunshine has confused me into Spring Cleaning mode.
I know it is not yet Spring, and yet: curtains down and laundered, bathroom scrubbed, dusting achieved, cupboards reorganized.
And it’s just past noon!
The book budget for libraries (assuming a school is lucky enough to have one at all) hasn’t risen from $5 per student since I started many (many) years ago.
Scholastic book fair profits don’t go as far either. It’s just a sad state of affairs all round— the students need and deserve more.
Where the school gets the money from can ABSOLUTELY affect who gets booked: if you don’t have an independent budget for this stuff & have to apply to Writers Union or Parent Councils for support THAT can open up objections/limitations that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
I’m elementary & every Board does things differently, but in my experience booking authors has always been a school level decision between the library staff and principal.
A 3 coffee morning
All schools here are CLOSED.
NO buses are running anywhere.
The world may be on 🔥 but here we are enveloped by ❄️
Same same
Seems promising?
(Do not, under any circumstances—Anyone—offer a reason why it might not be.)
Watching the Mr. Dressup doc on CBCGem before it disappears and this was an A+++ choice in my part
2025 reading goal 64/62 books read 103%
Of course, that said, I will post how I did for 2025…since I did it and all.
For the first time in (I would guess) a decade, I am not going to set a reading goal for 2026.
I’m tired of quantifying. I’m tired of trying to meet and surpass arbitrary expectations. I will continue to log what I read, but I will—perhaps—read more organically for myself.
🎄Merry Christmas!🎄
Wishing you and yours peace, comfort and contentment over the next few days.
Disconnecting from *All Of This* for the holiday.
He does keep “decreeing” the strangest things…
