Well, I am feeling old. My son is now 30 and I got sick. They are not related, but they both happened at the same time. I finally went to find out why I was having headaches all the time. It seems that my blood pressure was very high. The doctor was surprised. So they did blood work on me and I am to return on the first. My blood work showed I have high triglycerides (whatever), it means I am getting old! It
also means that I must start eating well all the time. That’s really a bummer. I have always ate what I wanted all my life. I ate well, only when I wanted to.

Yesterday, we had a meeting of all the interventionists in the parish. Ms. Hardy, our supervisor, told us that we had scored very well. When she averaged the schools, we had had over 18% growth. We had to have 15%. The level that pulled us down was 3rd grade. That seems to be the norm. They did not start at the beginning like the Kindergarten and they had more growth to show. It is impossible to make them grow three years in one, but they even had a nice growth from the beginning.
Kindergarten was the highest growth. They are reading at a high level. It truly makes us feel good. Ms. Hardy says that she is not worried about the state any more, because they ask her what they need to tell others. We don’t want to get a swell head, but we are very proud. We should do even better next year, because all of us will be more familiar with what we are supposed to do. Henry was higher in the kindergarten group and second grade. The interventionist then toured our rooms. They were very jealous of the areas we had. BUT they, too, had the opportunity to
work here. Most people turn us down, because they think we have such a bad group. Well, it seems that our group is not as bad as they think. I do not feel sorry for them at all.