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Friday morning, I found myself crowded in a room with several people in order to start planning out an RTI Manual. This manual is needed so that if anyone "decides to leave", someone else could step in to replace them... preparing for coming lay-offs? Ha! We fooled them! No one has a minute to actually work on the manual until this summer.

While doing that the state department of Ed. representative go to be all impressed with what we're doing at the high school. Of course, if you look at all the research, doing anything at the high school level is impressive. Even more impressive would be something that was proven to work... which we haven't found yet. But I am supposed to expecting calls from other schools. God, help me, I'm going to sound like Tim Gun*... "make it work!"

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