It's still six days until the new semester starts on the 17th, but I've already seen a flood of activity from one particular student. Janet is a returning student who "dropped out" last spring. In this particular case, she stopped logging in for 30 straight days and was withdrawn by our truancy department after several attempts to bring her back into the school fold. She didn't go anywhere else from here, unlike other students who stop logging in because they've gone to another school without informing us.
Janet, it seems, is back with a mission. She is technically in my upcoming class, which is down to 226 students (funny, it was 224 this morning). However, because she reenrolled within the last two weeks of this semester, she was placed in my current class just to hold her spot as a student. She decided to get a head start on the material by tearing straight through the first five weeks of my class, leaving only the major writing assignments to be completed later. She's done more in two days than some of my current students have in two months.
I had to call her and beg her to stand down for a few days. My teaching team is redoing a lot of the curriculum and some of what she's done may not make the cut for her actual classwork. She seemed frustrated that she couldn't finish the whole class at once and get on with her life. I think her year away from school taught her how much she wanted to be back in it, if only to finish.
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