Free Meals- Buna ISD

 Again, taking a break from my sabbatical. 

The Buna ISD is offering Free Breakfast and Lunches for all students in the Buna ISD for 25-26. 

Good. 

They should have done this years ago. 

Now, if they would offer free lunches and breakfast to faculty and staff. Maybe it does? Use it as part of the incentive for teachers/staff. Teachers going to the cafeteria and perhaps staying and eating would cut out a lot of potential foolishness. Then again, perhaps the meal program for kids is part of a grant in which faculy/staff is not included? ( The economics might not be as enough to include teachers/staff.)But I am sure there are people who hate teachers and wouldn't want to consider that. I know Chicken Fried Steak day, well, who doesn't like Buna ISD CFS and homemade rolls? 

Anyway, good for the district offering free meals to the kids.  

 

I'm Back...Sort of...

 I spent the morning after 3AM prayers looking at investment properties in Caithness, and the Orkney Islands...Found a couple of good investments, but my children would profit from the investment, and well, those two give ME investment tips....And real estate in one of me homelands ain't in their suggestions....

But I digress. 

A couple of people asked.....

We're doing pretty good. I try and post every couple of days on Facebook. Let y'all know I am still alive. 

I've gone into sort of a news "blackout" as it was really starting to get to me, and have cut back on YouTube watching. 

The Israeli/Iranian War just did a number on me.... 

All this said, I am still concerned about the Western World. 

I made the mistake this morning and looked at the British newspapers and it is all "gloom and doom." Part of it is I read the Daily Mail, nicknamed the " Daily Hell" by many in England and Scotland. 

And to be honest the rest of the world, talking about Asia, ain't doing so good either.  

I'm concerned about what the United States, heck all the Western world will look like in 20+ years.  Then again, I guess I shouldn't. I probably won't be around in 20 years. I do turn 68 next month and when I was 18, well, 68 was ancient......And it sorta is.....

I am concerned about Gen Z. 

I am too a lesser extent concerned about the Millennials.  Read this before I went into a news blackout of sorts that less than 50% of them are having children. 

That's not enough to repopulate the US. 

Who knows what is going to happen with Gen Z?

On another note......

Damn, looked at the calendar, school is just around the corner. 

Teachers, get those last trips in, read that last book, watch that show on Netflix.....

Sooner than you know, you'll be going to that waste of time known as "Inservice." And don't tell me how valuable inservice is.....In 30+ years, I learned nothing and couldn't tell you a damn thing said at one.  As I have said for years, I'd much rather have the kids in class. 

This coming school year, I will start year number 15 retired.....The farther I get from it, the more I do not miss it, and realize, I could not teach today's kids, no matter how much baloney I could come up with. 

Thanks for letting me take a break from writing. I had gotten so much negativity that well, I needed to step away for a little.....We seriously have looked at moving to Europe more than once, but, we'd just be looking at the same problems there as here...Is that going to keep us from traveling there? Of course not. But us going there permanently? No....Part of it is, we should have moved years ago. 

Okay, back to my sabbatical. We plan to be back posting regularly in August. 

When I do come back next month, I'll write a disclaimer, and we'll start year 15 writing the blog from there. 

Again, let me reiterate, thank you for letting me take a break, my mental health needed it.   

( Of course if something dramatic happens, I'll post.) 

 

 

State of the Blog?

 I've knocked and rolled with my blog for the couple last days. And to be honest, I do not know if it is worth it anymore or not. I think I have got it again, but I've lost blogs in the process and not sure where?

I've considered even starting a new blog....Perhaps a Govteach Part Trois? Go Latin. Pars Terita "Govteach"  Or just keep the old Govteach Part Deaux....

And Summer-time numbers, well, they are never good. People on vacation, people drinking beer all day, everyday, school out of session. 

I don't know, I think I need a sabbatical. 

I often take a look and go...." Am I actually doing any good? I'm certainly not getting rich....Or making any form of money." 

Perhaps I need to take the month of July off.....Then something will occur, the wheels will come off the truck, and well, I'll need to blog. Won't make the month....But I need to try and take a break to reflect. Reevaluate. 

 Maybe I need to set up some sort of AI system and let it take over. :)

Going to watch a little baseball today. It is the 4th and most of MLB plays matinees today. 

I'm going to take some time off. I've been doing this for 15 years, and well, sometimes you need a break.  

 

 

Gotta Go to School........And Working on a Blog, Well, Having a Hard Time With.....

 I was someone amazed at the number of " Back to School" sales, and advertisements that popped up yesterday on the telly, the YouTube, the advertisements on the internet yesterday, it was like, " Man, we got behind, we better throw as many as we can out there today..."

I also forget how quickly the " Summer Break" flies  by when you are teaching school. I know non-teachers  you don't understand what it's like to have a room full of 30 well, I'll be nice and call them "characters" and you battle with them, every damn day, and it's like this for 8 hours a day. And the character personalities change every hour and so does your reaction....I still take two blood pressure medications to this day and my doctor said that I probably always will. 

I know many teachers will start back to school for inservice the first of August, the kids, the middle of the month of August. ( I've always said, other than a couple of days of workdays, learn any new rules in about an hour, I'd rather have the kids in class. Any changes I had made to my actual lessons, well, they had been developed during the Summer months....Economics was hard to teach to high school seniors., I changed how I taught it every Summer Break.)

- Now to the blog. 

I am in the process of writing a blog concerning Buna ISD. 

Normally, I don't care, I throw it out there and if people are pissed at me, well, so be it. I don't care. 

It's comes with writing what amounts to an opinion piece. 

I'm going to write this one, and well, it may splatter on people I don't want it to. Don't think it will, but, in 2025, you just never know. We live in crazy times. 

I am sure it is getting written in the coming days, and well, honeymoon periods, grace periods only last so long. And that person is not who I worry about offending..... Part of it is, a lot of people still don't know I write this blog, even though I've been doing it for 15 years. Never mind every time I publish a blog, hundreds if not thousands of people read it. 

I don't know, I know the blog will get written, and in the end I'm be Kerry Thomas and go " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."