I noticed, that for reasons not understood by this author, the date of my posts is incorrect. Until I figure out how to fix that issue, I will also date my days…

Today is Day 2 of mandatory teacher training, and Thursday, August 11th, 2016.

The day started with an all district pep rally. There really is no other, accurate way to describe it. We all met at way to early:30, stood around drinking luke warm coffee and pasteries sharing the various stages of preparedness we were for the upcoming school year. Then followed the shuffling into the large gym for the festivities. This was a mandotory event, as drilled into our heads by the numerous emails and even followed up with a snail mail “invitation” to our personal addresses. With as much emphasis placed on our mandatory attendance, you would think that the “powers that be” would plan to have enough chairs set up for all of us being forced into attendance….nope! Many of us were sitting on the floor, unable to view the PowerPoint presentations over the lucky chair people, now the live entertainment. But let’s fast forward through the speeches and such…I am sure you are able to fill in the blanks.

Later, back on campus for the day two STAFF MEETING, my special ed cohorts and I “acquired” our own table. We anxiously waited for someone to notice and inquire where our table came from, but we left the day disappointed.

Today was a bit longer of a day. It started again at 7 am, but this time the STAFF MEETING ended with 90 minutes for us to work in our classrooms, so I spent almost 3 hours, followed by a trip to the Dollar Store for essentials, followed by planning for my staff training day tomorrow and list making for all the things I still need to accomplish before school starts Monday. My list fits on 1 piece of college ruled binder paper now (both sides) so I am feeling pretty good. I will let you know tomorrow if that is still the case.