Madness!!!
Judas Priest – Breaking the Law
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Today was the last day of our professional development at Cochran Middle School, the desired outcome of which was to put finishing touches on our classroom, curriculum, and preparations for the beginning of the year.
Yet, at 2:30pm today, our principle called the entire staff into the library for an “emergency” meeting to let us know that many teachers’ fall classes and schedules will be changing entirely in the next few days before school begins, thus effectively wiping out the schedule teachers had signed up for last spring.
The culprit? The school had scheduled all of the honors classes to occur within a single house (a la “Gryffindor, etc…” from Harry Potter) as well as all the ESL classes in a single house. (This move, done over the summer, was seen by many as subversive in and of itself). The problem? Placing kids by ability in a single house is viewed by some higher ups (and lower downs) as tracking kids, which is illegal.
So now, with a week off coming up before school begins, the staff is even more clueless as to what will actually occur day one that school starts!
I just hope I don’t end up teaching 6th grade Phys-Ed.
Themocracy
Dude, I feel that you have a very nice jumpshot those 6th graders would love to learn!!! ha,ha,ha