What a day! Day 7 brought lots of changes to our lil ole school (and teachers) that have survived a merger, dust storm, bulletin board destruction and most recently "classroom reassignment". Due to the merger and the district changing boundaries, our enrollment was lower than projected, leaving other schools in our district bursting at the seams.
This resulted in "condensing" grades 1, 2 and 4 :( Basically one teacher from each grade was reassigned to teach another grade at another school in the district. Thank goodness there are jobs for them all, it's hard enough as it is! This means that the other classes will "absorb" the other students. A little difficult to do a week and a half into the school year, but I'm not complaining...I easily could have been a "reassigned" teacher and thank the elementary school gods that I'm not one of them. I will however, miss my new teammate :( and the other 2 teachers headed for new adventures.
The trials we have all been through during the past year have been frustrating and and trying on the nerves but despite all of the upheaval, we managed to become the 2nd highest achieving school in the district! Second only to the traditional academy I might add ;) This brings me to my conclusion, dear dear district...please close the doors (turn down the ac while you are at it) and leave us alone until May! I promise you will not be disappointed!
I'll get off my soap box now, thanks for listening!
Any words of encouragement will be appreciated :)
Who left from your team? I know we got a music teacher from your school and is now teaching kinder- yikes! poor thing!
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I had no idea that could happen! Keep on, and keep that head held high! Xoxo ;)
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