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Another Break-In, Sigh.

June 1st, 2012 at 01:43 am

When I got over to the school today I found out that someone (or some group) had broken in to the various buildings on our campus last night. The main thing we could see that they stole were the tools from the maintenance shed, and a backpack from AL's office (in the media center/computer lab) which they used to carry the tools. AL's desk had been gone through, but other than her bag, nothing else was missing in the library or computer lab that we could tell.

In the 5th grade room's bathroom they'd taken a fire extingquisher and sprayed it, tagged the walls, and left the water running.

One of our maintenance men was able to track the path of the vandals/theives to an abandoned building and actually recovered the tools and a few other items.

The doors which had been forced open (media center door, nurses office, guidance counselor, admin office) locks have all been fixed.

Now we are all a bit worried that the vandals/thieves may come back tonight to get back what they stole and maybe make a mess besides in retaliation.

Sigh ...

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I spent a good portion of this afternoon inventorying and weeding duplicate copies. I think I pulled roughly 150 duplicates, possibly more - just in the E Fiction/Picture book section. There were quite a few books I wasn't familiar with, so one of my goals this summer is to read all the books in that section (roughly 1100) and decide if they are keep worthy or not AND what subjects/topics they'd work well for. (I won't be reading ALL of them, just the ones I'm unfamiliar with - each book shouldn't take more than 8 - 10 minutes to read.)

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The 3rd grade teacher suggested making a transparency of a computer keyboard, and then using an overhead projector to shine it on the tablecloth. Then I could use permanent markers to trace/draw the keyboard. Eventually we'd add iron on appliques for the different letters/symbols to make it more long lasting - but the marker should work for this year to start.Smile

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I spent a lot of time last night working on a wiki for the students to upload their technology projects from summer school to. I'm making it generic (no identifying info) so I can share it here with y'all when it's over and you can see some of their projects. Big Grin

I'm going to make another wiki for them to put their school year projects up on later.

I also found out about a neat web app called fotobabble. Essentially you upload a photo and then you can say something about that photo. They have a new feature where you can link several photos together to create a presentation, or kind of a movie. I was thinking that it would've been great to have had this when I did my biology botany project back in high-school!

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Tomorrow I want to finish up inventory (38% to go!), get my house cleaned (trash, sweep, scrub counters) and then have company for supper! So ... this means I'll probably have to start my day at school before noon ... Big Grin

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More grad school news ... I found out that part of the classes do involve on campus time. The person responding was a bit of nincompoop if I do say so! He told me that I could "learn more about what kind of campus time was involved once I start taking the classes." Really?? Maybe I need to have that information *ahead* of time so I can make an informed decision of whether or not I'm able to take the classes! I haven't responded yet because I'm waiting for me to come up with a pointed, yet polite reply. The pointed part I have no trouble with, it's keeping it polite that is more troublesome (i.e. probably saying "you numbskull" wouldn't be very beneficial.) Big Grin

7 Responses to “Another Break-In, Sigh.”

  1. ThriftoRama Says:
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    Stealing from schools is unforgivable.

  2. Shiela Says:
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    That's terrible, hope they catch them soon.

  3. My English Castle Says:
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    man, that makes me mad. And your numbskull guy too. Sigh

  4. CB in the City Says:
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    Translation of his answer: "I don't know, and I'm not going to bother to find out for you."

  5. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Thanks everyone.

    Yeah, stealing from schools is so wrong on so many levels. Frown
    CB - hah! I love your translation - it probably is quite accurate too. Smile

  6. baselle Says:
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    With the stealing: grr.
    With the idjit at grad school: Why such a state secret? Is this spy school or what?

  7. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Hah! Spy school Smile
    So .. here is the reply I sent. Not exactly what I was thinking or wanted to really say, but still fairly pointed while keeping polite.

    "Thank you for your reply.

    Considering that I am out of state, so would have to fly or drive to TX for any on campus time (as well as take time off of work), is there anyway I can find out what the on campus time requirements are *before* registering? For example, if one of the courses requires two days on campus, and is offered in the summer, that is when I would prefer to take it. However, If it only requires one day on campus, then I could probably talk my principal into letting me have that day off for the Spring semester (and hopefully be able to add it to my already planned trip to DFW at Christmas time so it wouldn't be an added expense.)

    Thank you.

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