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 “I don’t know what the original directions you were given, but these are the directions now”.

The above quote sounds like something an exasperated teacher would say to a class of unruly students upon the realization that the carefully laid plans for the class had utterly backfired. However, I did not hear these frustrated words come from any teachers today, but from an administrator in during our weekly faculty griping session that entails “professional development”. Apparently, what it was this time was that textbook distribution had been royally fouled up and we teachers had been told several different and conflicting tales about what would go on. Now don’t get me wrong, after the first full week (i.e. 5 days) of school and seeing my kids, I have great optimism that they WILL learn and will do very well! Tomorrow, the rubber actually hits the road when we begin learning about tables and graphs!