We've returned to real life. No more laying around like lazy bums all day. Today was actually pretty productive...all our laundry is done, kitchen is more sparkling clean than it was even when we moved in here (thanks, Deena, for mentioning scrubbing floors like Cinderella...I had to try it, and though it sucks to do, the floor feels SO much better), we no longer have a moldy shower curtain liner, Dave's hair is cut, grades are done. Now I'm about to go to bed and Dave is playing his baseball game because Boston has a game tomorrow and if he doesn't play and win his playstation baseball game using Boston, he jinxes them from winning (he believes this...I guess others could probably understand, tho I don't).

About the grading...I have a nagging yucky feeling in my stomach because though I tried to do the whole standards based grading with summative and formative assessments separate and a 5 point scale, I still don't think it reflects whether the students really "met the standard." Here's the breakdown...33 As, 77 Bs, 17 Cs, 1 D. That just seems weird to me. And the thing is, to get an A you had to have 5s on all your summative assessments AND only one formative that was not 100%. That seemed like it would make it very difficult to get an A, which I think it should be, but still, 33 students got As. Like I told Leish, I'm not trying to be like the thick-glasses guy, but sheez, seems to me like more kids should be doing worse. Isn't that messed up thinking??? The part that bothers me most, though, is the Bs...there are some kids who got 4.93 or something like that who got a B and others who got 4.0 and still got a B. Now when I look at them as students individually and the kind of work they did, no way do I think they deserve the same grade. Not at all. But I don't know how to justify giving the 4.0 kid a C, which is what I think she deserves, going on my thinking that A/B is meets, C/D is approaches. The fault of it still lies in the averaging part. Cuz to me, if you never meet on all your summatives, you shouldn't meet on your final grade. But I never set um up like that for this quarter, so some of their grades are skewed. I gotta rethink the whole thing for the rest of the year.

K-den, back to the reality of sku in another day.