The Good: Most of our students are working along well, and the class stars are excelling wonderfully. It's truly a joy to watch their young minds grinding away at new ideas and installing them in main memory for good.
The Bad: The AWOL students from last Friday, when faced with a discipline assignment that is hard work but can bump their grade, compared to a session with the school disciplinarian and likely suspension.... would rather choose the suspension. They went AWOL because they don't really want to be here, and for them a suspension is like a paid vacation. One student took the assignment, put his heart into it, and is now off the hook and has a clean record.
The Ugly: My evening adult class starts at 4pm. It is 4:02 as I write this. Not a single student has arrived yet. Either some knucklehead fluffed the class dates, or this is a very bad omen for the quality of the class. "We are not amused".
(Update)
I went on a hike and found my students. Somebody sent them to the wrong classroom. "We are still not amused". Well, not much anyway.
2 comments:
Don't feel bad, at least you didn't have to go half way across the country, only to find out the meeting was cancelled! Hang in there, you ARE making a difference!
"Wrong Classroom"...pretty funny, reminds me of me at Ohio University back in the mid 60s....but it was usually on Friday AM after a Thursday night out "clubbing" around Athens...
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