Enrollment

Some days I don't know who to believe. On one hand, I hear that we are budgeted for 1,050 students. If we don't meet that number, we will have to surplus (lay-off) teachers. So we have an all-call to people who might want to get into the school on a choice transfer (meaning they attend a sucky school and through NCLB they get to transfer from anywhere to a non-sucky school). So, currently, I have 36 students assigned to my homeroom. Not counting the ten on my roll who haven't shown up yet (and still might).

On the other hand, we were told that our average class size was reduced to 24 this year. Doing the math, it means we should only have about 900 students in the school, for the number of homerooms we have.

Even though I am getting tons of kids assigned to me, I chatted with my friend the enrollment manager, and she confided that if she liked the students who registered, she tried to assign them to my room. She is SO sweet, and it is a shame she is being worked so hard with this situation.

Teaching is going well. Resolved the monitor cable issue and showed the kids the website I developed for them (mrparry.weebly.com). They liked it, and like having the textbook online. Yay!

Bad news - on the way home I hit some sort of metal in the street. Made a huge clanging sound as it shot across at least one lane, and suddenly the rear of my bike was kind of unresponsive. Damn thing cut through my tire AND the tube. So, I take off both wheels to get it into the car, thoughtfully brought round by my spouse, and go to the bike store. Got a sturdier tire for the back, and a nice little strobe light for visibility in dark conditions. Like this morning, where ground fog adjacent to a park was so thick that I couldn't see 10 feet.