Nick's Email

We’ve had the ‘un-official’ end of summer. I can’t wear my white pants anymore. Nick is talking about closing the pool for the season. Everyone is back at school but me. I guess the only thing that bothers me about all this is packing away the white pants, they’re very comfortable. I like summer but I always like a good change of season and we do live in a beautiful spot to enjoy fall.

On the TTWD front I got a very interesting email from Nick last week. He wrote:

Utilizing your vast experience in evaluating and grading performance....

Produce a report card on your week's performance.

Include the following performance areas:  

1. Amount and quality of exercise for general health

2. General housekeeping

3. Special projects

4. Progress on weight loss goals

5. Proper bedtime 

6. Other concerns (optional)

               

Remember this is not an institution where breathing is sufficient to get a passing grade.

Your card will be reviewed (probably tomorrow).

The "board of education" will be involved as necessary.

Although I didn’t necessarily think I should be the one doing the grading I went along and sent back the following:

1. Amount and quality of exercise for general health    C-

2. General housekeeping   B+

3. Special projects   A +   Cassie book was accepted (Does this count?)

4. Progress on weight loss goals   D

5. Proper bedtime   C    (goals were not made clear)

6. Other concerns (optional) Specific expectations should be made clear before grading.

As he looked it over later he told me I’d better be glad I’d gotten that book accepted, because otherwise my grades mostly stunk. He reminded me that I’d always told the kids only A’s and B’s were acceptable because I knew they were capable. We discussed the good and bad of the report card and talked about ways to bring up my grades. 

I explained to him that I’d always been a hard grader and that he should be the one grading. It didn’t do me much good and the ‘board of education’ did come into play.

The weather was great Monday morning so I went walking, it easier when the weather cools. So we’ll see. And I have a clarification on a reasonable bedtime. Of course, mostly it’s just nice knowing he’s paying attention. We’ll see how this week goes.