Physics Honors today. And one course of Earth Science.
Cool.
The new school year has an added class period, but the day is just as short. 7:05am -1:50pm. Class periods are now 48 minutes long, they used to be an hour. I really felt an hour was too short as it was. It's difficult to effectively teach anything in that short of time to a group of 25-30 teenagers. When I was a freshman in high school, there were 7 period days like there are now, but the days were longer.
And how is that short time being spent today? Finishing tests and watching a movie. October Sky. Good movie, but I see an awful lot of movies in the classroom these days. WTF? I don't remember watching this many movies when I was in high school.
And I get to see the first half hour or so of it 7 times.
It's an easy day and the kids think I'm cool so why am I bitching?
It's what I do. I can't help it. I'm annoyed and disappointed. I think schools can be better than this.
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