It's like you have to have some kind of executive order to get someone to come and clean gum out of the carpet. Morale is very low.

If the children are going to have any kind of floor area, you're in kind of a Catch 22 as a staff member.

I praised him for writing the memo with the phrase 'may,' because certified teachers ... do not have to clean.

What the community doesn't always know is that Advocates provides training for violence in the workplace, civil protection order assistance, outreach and education regarding issues of date rape drugs.

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

We'll be drafting an order for the court to sign, and I'll be sending it over to Mr. Weitzman to review before I do that.