Laptops and Crayola Markers...Hmmm

So the day started off like any other Friday. I was in a good mood. (See previous blog.) I drove into the school parking lot and pulled in right next to a police car. Now this didn't phase me because we've had alot of police on our campus so far this school year. Remember the irate parent that was cussing out everyone in her path and caused a lockdown last month? Then just recently we had police at school because LISD thought it might ease parents' fears after the Amish school incident in PA. Did they not think that seeing a policeman on school property might make parents more uneasy? Anyway...so here was another morning. Well, it turns out that overnight 21 classrooms in three hallways were broken into and 9 laptops were stolen. They used a brick to smash the classroom door windows and open up the door to the rooms. They cut the cable locks that secured the laptops. Didn't take printers. Didn't take much of anything else. But they did take some Crayola markers! Hmmm...for their kid at home? Funny that they may have been thinking about their child while they were destroying a school. Well, thanks to a good maintenance team, by 9:15 am all classrooms were vacuumed and doors were fixed. The police had dusted all the rooms and windows. It appears the culprits may have come in through an unlocked window. Glad that wasn't my room. My portable wasn't touched. LISD is replacing all the stolen laptops by Monday. So now we may be getting security cameras installed in the school...again. Apparently they had them at school some years ago when there was a series of break-ins. But they were taken down after awhile. It's really too bad we need them again.

Well, off to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels today. The show's at 2:00 and we have to leave at 11:45 am. Why? Texas-OU game. At the Cotton Bowl. In Fair Park. I guess when we bought the tickets we had forgotten about the game. Oh well...we'll have alot of time to chat in the car with our friends as we sit in traffic.

But I'm still in a good mood. Just need my bagel and coffee.