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Now is am finally CERTIFIABLE

I just finally got my instructor certificate to teach people to be certified as Emergency Dispatchers. This will be a capstone certificate to my students that have been with my program for their high school career. The students can take the national certifying test with NAED and if they pass and pay the fees, they can go out and apply for a job as Emergency Dispatchers at police departments, fire departments and even places like OnStar
This is VERY beneficial and just so cool!

Back to school

It is Back to School time and this seems like it will be the best year ever. Last year was very good but this year is shaping up to be a really encouraging year. I have a good crop of students and almost 65 second year students. A lot of them are returning 10th graders so that means that we may have a good 3rd year program and maybe even a 4th year.

The most pressing need I have now is equipment and another teacher.

Arrrghhh!

Webpub will not let me upload anything to the TAMU-C system! I will have to try tomorrow from the school lab.

Curses, foiled again.

Last assignments!

Here it is that last day of class (online) and I am rushing to meet the deadline for last assignments! Is there anyone else out there doing the same?

Webquests bog me down because I get so fascinated by them. They get me going off on such wild tangents. Is this something that will happen to my students also? Especially my law enforcement students who test out heavily on the ADD or ADHD side of the learning equation. Good cops are ADD; at least all the good cops that I have known. They are also adrenaline junkies. AHA! That reminds me of another website that gives a self test to see if you are an adrenaline junkie. This is not such a bad thing. You want the police and firefighters to be adrenaline junkies. They are the ones that will charge into a burning building or a dangerous accident scene to drag your behind out.

Aunt Stelle's Sno Cones

This is absolutely the quintessential Dallas summer time experience. Aunt Stelle's Snow Cones
The snow cone has been elevated to an art form at this location. When I first married, my wife and I lived on Marlborough Avenue in Oak Cliff. Six blocks south at Clarendon at Marlborough is Aunt Stelle's. Not Aunt Stella's because they are very adamant about that. The snow cones are unique because of the ice shaving machine was invented by Aunt Stelle's husband (Uncle Stelle?) The syrup flavorings are made in the frame house next door. Aunt Stelle retired several years ago and her daughter runs the business.

Go now. Aunt Stelle closes down when school in DISD starts back in August. Flavors to try: Pink Lady (tastes like homemade vanilla snow ice cream) , a flavor called Popeye and Beatle. One of those tastes like licorice. I can't remember. For .75 cents, try both.
See the video here.