Even though my sister had to forge through the snow to get to her school today.. see her post.. We started off the day with a rain just slightly more than a drizzle. By the afternoon it was coming down in buckets.
More disruptive than the weather, which in itself brings about bizarre behavior was the presence of another distraction.. the junior highs decided that today was the day to visit the high school. So lead my student docents, groups of 24 or so tromped through the school. Most of them were wide eyed. Others were trying to make a name for themselves in a bigger arena.. it didn't work. A school of 2700 is not going to remember how bad you are. My students were asking to go the restroom, craning their necks to see who was there, and generally not focused on the task at hand. This is difficult to reign them all in to focus back on the lesson.
On top of this, a student died in an auto crash this weekend.. but the school could not release the name due to legal restrictions. Counseling was to be available in the student support center.
When I came to work this morning, a student had missed the overpaass and crashed the mustang into the guard rail triggering the car's air bag. The Hollister Abracombre crowd had stopped and had exited their cars to walk up the grassy embankment to look at the car. They were all female and they looked like egrets looking for bugs in the grass. No one had appropriate footgear for their inquiry. No one was in the disabled car. I have yet to find out if the announcement was connected to accident scene that I had witnessed. I sort of think that the person who was stopped by the guardrail was not a fatality.
Pat
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment