I had to explain to the kids why I was laughing at a sign advertising Padle Boats and Water Sks today. They are young but they are learning some decent spelling. Sometimes I wonder when they make up the signs if they have all the letters they need or are creating an approximation of the word from what they have.

Our provincial governemnt has taken all the general concern over possible lower education standards and is using it to drive a particularly vicious anti-teacher agenda. The changes they have made and are proposing do not actually address any of the real concerns only the pocketbooks of tax-payers who no longer have children in school.