Today was my brother's registration. I may have already said this, but, to save money my school district closed the kindergarten (and put them in the elementary school), put 5th and 6th graders in the other middle school, and 7th and 8th graders in the middle school I went to. Because they have all the 7th and 8th graders in the district, the school is short lockers, so people are going to have to share. Apparently, not enough people have volunteered to share (I mean, who would?), even with larger lockers, so students, including my brother, won't get their locker and combination until the first week of school. That is going to be hectic!!!
I also learned today that the schedule 'mix-up', with new teachers after a semester, isn't a mix up at all! It's another poorly-thought-through-money-saving-techniques. Instead of having a bunch of teachers that only teach for part of the day, they moved students around, so that all the teachers there work for the whole day, and laid off some others. As usual, the board didn't think of the educational consequences. That's enough of rambling on about stuff I can't fix.
Most of the teachers are just as upset as you are about the new scheduling system. It's supposed to make scheduling more flexible so students can get into electives they want, but I think it's gone a bit overboard. We'll see how it goes this year, I guess.
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