Second Week Crazier than the First

If that even makes sense.

I don't know how, but for some reason all of the new assembles and firedrills and anouncements that should have been made last week were done this week. Just when we were actually starting to teach. And the worst part was that the DRP was this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Thank goodness all my literacy classes are double in length or we would not have had time to finish it (there are still a few who were absent that haven't even started yet). We also had our very first visit from the officer when a student started throwing things around the room.

Today, during seventh period, was also our very first firedrill, and let me tell you I was running around the school for most of it. I had to help students out, help students back in, help them out again to get on the bus, help students in to get their backpacks, and help them out one last time, oh and I almost forgot that I had to go back in to sign my time card. I did find out right then that I got about a one dollar raise, so all and all today was great, refer to the title of this blog.

The New Dress Standard

I guess I should explain the dress code since I mentioned it in the last post. I thought it was big news in Provo when they announced it last year, but I guess it was only a big deal to the teachers and students.

First off let me say that it's not a uniform, we haven't become a private school, or a foreign school. Basically the administration is just requiring that all students wear collared shirts and nice Bottoms. The only requirements are that the shirt not ahve any writing on it, the pants (which can be jeans) have no holes and aren't to baggy, shorts and skirts are not to short, and that flip-flops may not be worn. As staff the only extra thing that we have to follow is no jeans except on Fridays.

The no jeans part is kind of a bummer since I love jeans, but that's okay. As I've been walking around the school during the week it just seems like a nicer place to be. I thought that there would be a lot of resistance from the students, but there has been almost none so far. All and all it makes my workplace more pleasant, refer to the title of this blog.

Back In Session

School started up today. It rocked, the seventh graders are so nice (it was just them today), I hope they stay that way for the rest of the year. Tomorrow the eighth graders will be back, I'm semi-excited, it will be cool to see them after the break, I just hope some of them have calmed down a little from last year.

Work is very different this year. Whereas I used to be a math teacher, I am now a literacy teacher, I guess they finally decided that my habbit of correcting other people's grammer (If you find a grammer mistake that I've made in this post, then screw you) meant that I should be an English teacher now, so I no longer have any math classes. Academic Achievement is also no more, the administration eliminated all term classes so many classes have been either cut or extended to full semester classes.

Anyways, it's getting late so I've got to go to bed, refer to the title of this blog.

Oh, and the new dress code is actually kind of nice.