Remote Starbucks Not a Bust

Today was the last finals day.

It started with a nice call from my sister and her husband, wishing me good luck on the last day.

The final day for my 5th period class wsa not too successful. Most of the students in this class are not academic. The two that are were not interested in getting good grades on the final. I tried to review for those that needed it. They just wanted to get on with it and so did the non academics. Consequently there was a huge period of time that was not programable.

I was a little worried that my co teacher for the last period was not going to make it back to schoool. She was not elected to return next year so had little stake in being here on the last day.

She did arrive. The autistic kid that has a huge focus on time requested that his mom come by and that we get a photo op. She brought a very nice Nikon SLR digital and both of us posed with the 5th year senior that is headed next year into a transition program. It was sort of nice that he wanted to include us in his final goodbyes. He brought a yearbook and we signed it. He has big problems with massive seizures.. but in the 5 years that I have worked with him.. no seizures. So that box with the drug and the rubber gloves got to go back to the health office and we were clear.

My co teacher show up and I headed off to Starbucks so that the class (7 members in all) could phone in their order. For most of the students using two cell phones and trying to be understood was not a easy as they had thought. One student was a little above his league and I hung up on him when no speech sound occurred. He called back and placed his order. I delivered and we had a successful lesson.

There are many subtle dialog pieces that occur when you send someone a starbucks order remotely. The Starbucks order has some complexity. Its not just a burger and fries. Some of the drinks may be order hot or cold, blended or iced, regular or skinny. It was all good. I wrote down the list from the car. One student wanted orange juice, another wanted milk,the teacher wanted a skinny 1/2 pump mocha hazelnut coffee. The para wanted a coffee with milk and sugar. There was an iced carmel macchiato and two blended mochas.

The other teacher was able to capture the ordering on her flip phone camera. All studetne got A's for their fine work toward this goal.

It was a success!

: ) Pat