My sister-in-law started back to school last week at Furlough Middle School to a lot of changes. There seems to have been a staff overhaul with many new teachers and new principles. The students are now divided onto teams to compete against each other…and she’s still not too sure why yet. I’m going to assume it over grades. Another big change is how they are doing their lunch break. Everyone has to sit down at numbered table; no more than six to a table. Numbers are then called at random so students can get in line for food. If you end up being one of the last tables, good luck having enough time to eat.
I would also like to note that it’s now the second week of school and none of the students have their textbooks yet. They also have yet to have any homework, since they don’t have any books. You would think that since the teachers have been back to work since the start of last month, whatever issue they are having with the books should be non-existent.
Here is when the teachers did during part of their prep month:
She got to watch this several times of Friday, much to her horror. Seriously, this is what they spent a good chunk of their time on? Come on! While it is cute, I think that the time would have been better spent getting the text books ready and whatever else that needed done. As it stands, they won’t start handing them out until tomorrow. We used to have our books no later than the third day, unless something catastrophic happened (which was rare). The only catastrophic thing I see here is bad music choice.
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