Brit, the student I wrote about in my last entry, has been moved to a credit recovery class because he failed the English class he should have completed before starting my course. Why this wasn't done automatically is beyond my comprehension. At least I now know the guidance counselor does read her email, even if it takes her 24 hours to do so. Thankfully, she's one of the only counselors who gives me a headache. Most of the Guidance team are reliable people I know will go out of their way to help me, so I do the same for them. I'm very into mutual back-scratching.
I'm up to 162 students as of this morning. Three rolled over from admitted to enrolled yesterday (meaning they're actually ready to start working on academics) and a fourth did so this morning. So far, they're good kids! I'm having them skip some early material in the class so they can keep up with the main portion of the material I'm throwing at them. Some of them completed half a school year elsewhere but didn't do very well. I'm going to offer to let them finish the quarter and stop or to let them raise their transfer grades. The responses go either way depending on how much they enjoy the material in the course.
First snowfall in a while is making the view from my office window a gorgeous one. I heard the morning commute was a nightmare. Mine was ten steps in bare feet. On the other hand, I don't get those delicious snow days to frolic in the really heavy stuff, not unless it's so bad it wipes out my internet connectivity.
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