ST. LUCIE COUNTY – Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said she hopes to return to teaching after a unanimous vote by the School Board let her keep her professional contract with the county school district and the tenure protection it affords.
The School Board’s vote Wednesday came more than one year after Portillo led her kindergarten students to vote classmate Alex Barton, then 5, out of class for disruptive behavior. The child was in the process of being diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism, at the time.
“I’m overjoyed,” Portillo said after an emotional 90-minute hearing in which more than a dozen teachers and parents urged the School Board to relent in punishing her. “I’m happy that I’ll be able to go back to doing what I love to do.”
I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern South Japan around the year 1200. Your profession was that of a trainer or holder of fine animals, such as birds.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Person with huge energy, good in planning and supervising. If you were just garbage-man, you were chief garbage-man.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
You are bound to learn to understand other people and to meet all difficulties of life with a joyful heart. You should help others by bringing them a spirit of joy.
The Christian group “Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capitol” has made its way to Capitol Hill and Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor might be interested in what they did. They blessed the doors of Senate Hart Building Room 216 with prayer and oil because they believe this will be the room most likely used for her confirmation hearing which begins July 13th.
1944: Baseball supports the war effort with an unusual exhibition game at the Polo Grounds. Presented by the War Bond Sports committee in connection with the Fifth War Loan, the game among the Dodgers, Giants and Yankees swells New York’s quota in the current bond drive by $56.5 million.
The crowd of 50,000 contributes $5.5 million to attend, while the Bond Clothing Co. pays $1 million in bonds for an autographed program. The overwhelming majority of the money comes from the city of New York, with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia purchasing $50 million worth of bonds.
As for the game, each team bats six times, plays defense six times, and watches six times in the nine-inning game. It takes a professor of mathematics at Columbia to figure out how to accomplish this. The Dodgers win the three-cornered game with five runs, while the Yankees score one run and the Giants are shut out.
I seriously cannot remember a time in which it has rained so hard and for so long in DFW.
Glad I mowed the lawn right before this massive storm hit. As an added plus, I didn’t have to clean up any grass clippings because of the storm, it was going to do it for me.
Now that Carrie Prejean is no longer Ms California, what are the odds of her landing a gig on Fox News in the next three months?
I’m a single man for almost a week with WifeGeeding gone to the beach with her family. I think I’m going to do something somewhat major to the house and surprise here when she gets back.
I bought BibleScholarGeorge a big ‘ol steak at Bob’s Steak and Chop House last night. He never really had a high quality steak before, and since he saved BagOfNothing, it was the least I could do.
Everyone, give BibleScholarGeorge a standing slow cap in appreciation for saving this blog a few months ago using his Jedi like database skillz.
I can’t stand having lemons in my tea or water.
Is there any other female that has a higher power-trip than the hostess of a restaurant? Seriously.
The Colbert Report has been broadcasting from Iraq this week. Colbert has been cracking me up with his camoflauge suit and new military haircut, but I like how he opens the show in a Bob Hope style. Not sure if his demographic really understands why he walks out with a golf club and a classic looking microphone.
Speaking of Bob Hope, he was performing in Vietnam one time and my father had some kind of responsibility regarding the production of the show. Something went wrong behind the scenes when Bob was talking, actually something needed to be done on the stage directly behind Bob Hope. My father didn’t know how to resolve the situation without rudely interrupting Bob, so he put on a yellow rain coat and started working during Bob’s monolouge, and of course Bob started to crack jokes. I heard it once on some old tape around the house, but I doubt there’s any video.
Speaking of domographics, Katie Couric was on The Daily Show and Jon Stewart kept teasing her about her low ratings, and surprisingly she went along with the jokes.
Katie’s strength isn’t behind the desk, but interacting with people. The best possible solution for her and CBS is for her to take over Face the Nation when Bob Schieffer calls it quits, and then bring in someone like Anderson Cooper, who already does special assignments for 60 Minutes, to take over her job. I know, I should be running TV. I totally agree with you.
Speaking of news, I watched a little Brian Williams the other night. I noticed some hip sounding music between segments. Quite interesting.
David Letterman, I love you.
Imagine seeing your Christmas family picture appear in another country’s grocery store advertisement. Link
Denzel is just a cool name, isn’t it? And you have to be one heck of a guy to carry that kind of name.
