Spring has… Sprung?
Today I tackled a massive after-school project: posting quarter grades. It requires becoming current on your grading (after chasing down overdue assignments, digging through kids’ network folders to find the stuff they forgot to turn in and sorting through stacks of papers). Our grade book doesn’t sync with the system that we post our grades to, so, class by class I comb through students’ scores and post them. Then I add comments – “A pleasure to have in class” is number 101. The numbers go into the 500’s. I am frustrated that I cannot customize the messages, and it takes a while to scroll through them to find the appropriate message for each kid. (To parents who wonder why their teachers don’t post comments on report cards – this is why!) But the very least I can give my kids are short phrases of feedback and recognition. Yes… it is somewhat pathetic.
By 8:00pm, the job was done. My room had been tidied. And I had changed over the date on my white board. I left the building and… ah ha! It was still somewhat light out!
Driving home I noticed that spring has sprung – I hadn’t noticed! I hadn’t seen all the blossoms on the trees or the flowers poking up through the earth. What?!? The tulips are out? Where have I been?
Oh yes… I’ve been living in a windowless classroom since September.
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