Kevin's article....for those who can't access the website

Lords tabbed Fallon's new high school principal
Anderson, Boone assume new positions
By Michael Maresh
LVN Staff Writer
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Three Churchill County School District principals have been shuffled to different sites for the 2009-2010 school year.

Superintendent Carolyn Ross on Wednesday appointed Churchill County Junior High School Principal Kevin Lords as the high school principal to replace Robbin Pedrett. E.C. Best Elementary Principal Jane Anderson is moving to the junior high, and Keith Boone, who currently works as a special-assignment principal, takes over at E.C. Best.

Lords and Anderson are receiving a 2 percent increase in salaries because of the increased responsibilities at the secondary schools. Lords will earn almost $88,000 a year, Anderson will make $91,400 and Boone’s salary remains at $82,100

Ross said the changes were a reflection of the economy and cuts the district recently made.

“What I am doing is reassessing so the transition will be completed by the summer,” Ross said.

She said the three principals will soon be working at their new sites so they can be involved in the processes and changes.

The superintendent said Lords was chosen to be the high school principal because of his experience at this level. He had been an administrator and teacher at the high school.

Lords said the challenge at the high school are students and staff being twice the number of CCJHS. He said he is not looking at major changes but said a few will be implemented.

The new position was not something Lords wanted because the job will require him to be away from his family for longer periods of time.

“I don’t disagree with (Ross’) decision,” he said. “She is doing what is best for kids, and I support her 100 percent. If she tells me I am needed at the high school, I follow her directions.”

The junior high principal said he will miss the CCJHS staff and students, although he mentioned he will see these students when they enter high school.

What Lords is looking forward to is meeting the high school staff, saying he enjoyed the past experience of being a high school administrator and teacher.

Ross said Anderson was selected to lead the junior high because she understands what needs to be done to prepare students for high school.

Anderson said moving to the junior high will be a challenge, but added it will be exciting to work with the staff. She said the staff is professional, and that she likes teenage kids.

“Kids are awesome, regardless the age,” Anderson said.

The biggest challenge she sees is changing her practices from an elementary school principal — where most of her experience is — to a secondary principal. Anderson said she has a pretty good grasp on the curriculum side because of her previous job as the district’s curriculum director, but said there are nuances she must learn.

The principal said she never aspired to be a secondary school principal, but the struggling economy forced the district to make changes.

While looking forward to the move, she said E.C. Best will be missed.

“I love the fact that we have a beautiful school,” she said. “The kids are awesome, and the staff is dedicated. It’s a wonderful place to be. I love coming to work every day.”

Boone, former principal at the closed Lahontan Valley High School, was appointed to the E.C. Best position, partly so he could have his own school site.

Boone said the most exciting part of the principal shuffle for him is being placed at a school with teachers and students.

“I missed that,” he said. “I am very excited about being at a site.”

He said the challenges he faces are getting to know teachers, families and students and gaining knowledge of the data so the school can move forward.

“This is an awesome opportunity to work at E.C. Best and with that staff,” he said.

Boone said he did his administrative internship at Numa Elementary and had a “blast” working at the elementary level.

Kevin's in the Newpaper!

Here is the article about Kevin! Enjoy!

http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20090403/NEWS/904029989/1055&ParentProfile=1045

Comptyn's Story

Here is a story written by Comptyn. It is quite funny! I will type it as he wrote it and then I will put in () what the word is!

The three Nody (naughty) monkeys and the one smart monkey
by Comptyn


Chapter 1
One day one nody monkey came in teh zoo to see were (where) he came from. he got see and went in a cage with tons of bannanas.
Then another monkey came and said, "My my my I would like any kind of food"! Then, he also got captured. But were (where) was the other monkey.
Then a bannana peal fell from the sky "EWWW"! evrebody shouted. Then another monkey was captured.
Just one hour later a smart monkey came. But not in the zoo. He had lots o fun in his tree. He was so smart he could free a crocidile without getting eaten.
The smart monkey freed the nody monkeys then he went to a restrhunt (restaurant) for food with the nody monekys. Then the nody monekys asked, "How did you get so smart"?

Chapter 2 - The smart monkey story
One day I was born and went on a journey (just for fun) and learned a lot of cool things so I went to scool. It tought me a lot like 2+2=4, 10x10=100, 8+20=28, and how to count to 100 by 5's: (he actually has the colon!) 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100 Then I went to high school. Then time to graduwate.

Chapter 3 - The nody monkeys story
The nody monkeys said We jsut never went to school. We grew up nody so we never learn. So we don't know what 200+300=? 500 said the smart monkey. But since we know what school is, we will go.

Chapter 4 - The unknown chapter
do you want to play at the water slie. Sure after we greguate. We ment to say "thatnks. Can you show us hot o get to schoo?" sure. then they lived hapily ever smart.

The end.
turn to back and write a coment.


He then has a space on teh back to write comments! Anyhow, it was funny! He is a creative boy! He'd love to hear how you liked his story! In fact, he CRAVES to hear how you liked his story!

How a college professor proved socialism would never work

I got this in an email today from a friend of mine. I loved it so much I thought I'd post it. Enjoy!

A simple analogy

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that....

Kevin's New Job

For those of you who have not heard, Kevin will be starting a new job next year. He is going to be the principal at the high school here in Fallon. It was a forced transfer which means the superintendent reassigned him. (His actual title right now is administrator on assingment as principal at the Jr High.) So he has pretty mixed emotions. He is sad to leave the Jr High because he has an incredible staff and they have been WONDERFUL to our family for the last 4 years! We will miss them! He isnt' too excited about what he is going to the high school for. They are on the watch list for No Child Left Behind and have been there a few years. So they are getting close to the state coming in and firing everyone and everyone having to reapply for their job. Scores on tests are just not coming up. So there is a lot of stress at the high school, understandably. Hopefully he will be a good leader to get the staff and student unified and all working towards the same goal. He is excited about getting back to that age group. He has always wanted to go back to the high school but not this soon. He'll do a good job where ever he is asked to serve! The kids and I are all looking forward to the football games!

Daniel's BK Viral results

I just an email back from Daniel's nurse. We are still not detecting any BK Virus in his blood! YEAH! Thanks for prayers and good thoughts coming our way! They worked, again! We'll test every 2 weeks now. For those I have discussed this with, even though Daniel's labs came back at 860 copies (that is the measurement they use) and the range is less than 500 is 'normal', his copies have always stayed steady around 860. So they would apparently increase greatly if it was in the blood. So we are very grateful for that.

I have more pictures of Nathan. Tonight as we were eating dinner I noticed his face. Just his face, no where else. But he has been acting a little lethargic and whining a lot today. He stayed home from school today and will tomorrow, too!






We also took Comptyn into the doctor today for double ear infection. If I take Nathan in tomorrow (which I am going to if rash is still around) that will be 3 times in 4 days! Dr. Narag is going to name a room after our family for all the times we come in!

Nathan's Rash

Here is what Nathan broke out in last night in just a matter of 2 minutes.....ALL OVER HIS BODY! It was on his legs, arms, bummy bummy and we watched it go up his neck. It never got on his face. I called a friend of mine whose daughter has been fighting these hives for a long time.

I was freaking out trying to keep Daniel away before knowing what they were and fearing he would 'catch' whatever it was! Anyhow, Denise brought over some medicine the allergy doctor gave her (Benadryl won't work) and we gave that to Nathan. After 30 minutes he wasn't itchy as bad and with a dose of Motrin I sent him off to bed! This morning his he clear! Strange little outbreak! Thanks Denise for all your help! Once again, you are a life saver!