I love that at my school coaches can skip staff meetings, but not me the theatre director. My kids are over a week behind on rehearsals because of snow days, but I am not allowed to skip. I need people to stop treating the arts like this. It’s bullshit. These kids deserve better.

I’m exposing my husband to Glee for the first time. He’s had a lot of thoughts but by far his best comment came after 8 episodes of the kids getting slushied. “The floors of that high school have got to be so sticky…”