CAT Tracks for June 30, 2009

Cairo Association of Teachers - Newsletter

CAT Tracks for June 30, 2009

MOVING DAY

Well, CAT-CATTracks has been advertising for a solid month that it would have a new address beginning July 1, 2009...a move that was "pre-advertised" months ago when Yahoo announced that they were pulling the plug on Geocities...the host of CAT-CATTracks for the past dozen years.

To "make it so", your link to CAT-CATTracks will go missing later today to resurface...who knows where.

The reason for the "mystery" is that one does not know what addresses are available when one logs on to the "change site". For instance, when I made a dry run months ago, CAT was looooong gone...as was CATTracks. I tried cairoassociationofteachers.com and it worked. Will it be available later today...??? Time will tell...it's the first "new address" I will try. (I don't like the length of the address, but it's only 3 more characters than geocities.com/cattracks.geo...and definitely easier to remember.)

So, when your current link quits working...try cairoassociationofteachers.com and see what happens.

If that does NOT work, then do a "Google Search" for Cairo Association of Teachers, ignoring all "hits" that show geocities.com/cattracks.geo.

Actually, SUBSCRIBERS will get an e-mail providing the new link. With one click, you will be taken to our new location. Once there, you can add it to your "bookmarks" or "favorites"...while deleting the expired link.

By the way...

Today SHOULD be "moving day" for someone else...namely, Cairo Superintendent of Schools Leotis D. Swopes. His contract specified that he had to move to Cairo for the 2009-2010 School Year, which I would interpret as beginning on July 1, 2010.

Do NOT hold your breath...for TWO reasons:

The "beginning of the 2009-2010 School Year" could be interpreted to mean mid-August when the employees hold their first institute for the new year...at the new, MORE EXPENSIVE location of Shawnee Community College favored by Superintendent Swopes...where he can make his opening-day remarks standing behind an impressive podium and a stage back-dropped by a fancy red curtain...something "more fitting" for his legend-in-his-own-mind position of authority.

More to the point...I doubt VERY much that the Cairo BOE and Cairo FOP will hold him to that contract provision. Their latest announced moves to fatten the already "top heavy" administrative part of the Cairo School budget at the expense of employees and students does NOT send a message that they would try to force any reasonable restrictions - past, present, or future - on their high-priced Superintendent. (Especially after the improvements they made to his personal "golf course" at the close of the past school year...removing the "obstacle bushes" that blocked the fairway at CJSHS.)

Can I get an "Amen"?
If not, for sure a "MEOW"!

Yep, couldn't resist a "parting shot"...
The final edition of the "geocities version" of CATTracks HAD to be true to its roots...HAD to be in the vein of the always vigilant "WatchCAT", keeping one eye open at all time (night or day), waiting for the next outrageous action to be perpetrated by the Cairo School District "powers that be" upon their innocent "go-about-their-business" employees...letting out an appropriate "warning howl"!

Hmmm...
Former Cairo FOP Member and Interim Superintendent Sam Harbin used to chastise me about my "cat sounds"; namely when I would type my "Grrr..." during particularly offended/angered moments.
"CATs don't growl, Ron" was his frequent admonition.
Actually, I never did accept that assertion. Being a long-time cat lover, I've heard cats emit sounds that sounded purrty much like a growl to my ears...even back in the day when those ears were young and perceptive!
BUT, I've always been open to publishing different viewpoints...
So...if any animal kingdom experts out there take offense to my "howl" above - noting that it should be "yowl" or "yeowl"...so be it!
Let's simply agree to disagree...

For sure, however you wish to label it, when CATs get upset, they have a way of raising a ruckus that gets the attention of one and all!

See ya at our new address on July 1st!