This one's for you, Grandgardens

[dr_whom]

I'm going to be on The Daily Circuit on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow at 11:40am Central time, talking about the Northern Cities Shift again.

Apparently public radio producers decide what topics to have segments on by looking at the trending articles on Slate?

Comments

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

At approximately that time tomorrow, I gather that I will be at a school district-organized "spirit" event in which all the teachers are made to dance to Abba before(/as price for) being given a picnic lunch.

But I hope your interview goes better than your last one! MPR is generally a pretty good station.

[dr_whom]

Thanks! And you... have a good time there, I guess.

[dr_whom]

Well, there was a factual error on the promo page for my interview and I pointed it out to them and they changed it, so that's a good sign.

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

Great! I'm currently applauding the Building and Grounds Department to the hit tune of "Takin' Care of Business" by Bob Seger!

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I... what.... wow. Is life with your school district always rather zany and surrreal, or do they save it all up for this "spirit" event?

[occultatio.livejournal.com]

Judging by the other teachers' reactions (and, previously, dread) I gather it's mostly about this one event, although they seem to generally have mixed opinions about the high-level administrators.

(For instance: one of the elementary schools jumped 30% in the past year in the number of their students who are proficient in reading! And all they had to do was completely cut social studies and almost all science education!)