A Chaotic System

Last week my department head, Doug, told me that we were going to have a Christian Rock concert at school all morning on the 17^th. Yesterday at our morning flag raising assembly they announced to the students about the concert. Last night Thanh and I were discussing what the possible schedule would be and we agreed with what Doug had said which was that as our typical Tuesday schedule is: 5^th ,6^th ,1^st , lunch, 2^nd ,3^rd – that we would most likely have just 2^nd and 3^rd .

As I arrived at school today I said my usual 'good mornings' and snagged our morning bulletin. Blarg. Of course the message about the concert had been mistaken, and we actually still had Period 1 in the morning, just after the concert. I went to my room and spent the time before class started finishing up a lesson for period 1 as I had heard that we wouldn't have them and thus hadn't double checked that everything was ready. As the bell rang for assembly I walked with Dr. DeWees, another teacher in my department, and we discussed the pros and cons of the chaotic nature of our school system here.

The assembly was fun in its Jesusy way with the Kantina brothers turning out to be more of a Christian cover band more than a rock group, but still it was a nice change. As the assembly came to a close, Dorian came up and announced that there had been a little change in the schedule – figures – and that now we would have a 15 minute break, then 5^th period, lunch, and in the afternoon 6^th, 1^st, and 2^nd. But each was only going to be 45 minutes instead of the usual hour.

Sigh.

So we all went our separate ways to prepare for class. I didn't have to do much as 5^th period was my prep period, but as I settled in to get some work done Doug found me and asked me to cover 15 minutes of Dr. DeWees class since had left for town because 1^st period was his prep. I commiserate with the schedule changes so I had no problem covering, and headed down to Dr. D's classroom to wait for the bell. As I waited I played his guitar and just chilled, and as the bell rang only one student came in. Upon entering he dropped his bag and started to walk out so I hollered,

"Dr. D is going to be back in ten minutes so you need to come to class and can't skip" (kids skip all the time if their teacher is absent)

The kid popped his head back into the room and responded, "It's OK Miss Kate it is lunch time now."

"What???"

"Yeah the office changed the schedule again."

Double-blarg.

 

So I went and checked with Doug and was met with an exasperated shrug. As started sweeping my eyes over campus seeing if anyone was coming around with a memo and who did I see? Julia with a stack of papers! I hollered at her and we met midway and she handed me the new schedule with a total 'whatev-this-school-is-insane' look. So what was the new schedule?

10:20 – 11:45 Lunch

11:50 – 12:50 5^th Period

12:55 – 1:55 6^th Period

2:00 – 3:00 1^st Period

 

Why the heck not? Our fourth schedule for one day… The good part is that I had nothing to do essentially from 9:50 – 12:55, so I managed to get a lot of work done, and even find time to write this post.

 

Oh and they still haven't told us the schedule for tomorrow…