One Act = Many Consequences
The timetable change came into place and I had two classes at the same time. Solution - supposed to leave sec4 class to do their work by themseves Why? Geography easy what - they can do themselves. How to do that? their exams are in 2 weeks. so i gave my sec 1 class work and was shuttling btwn the third floor and the fifth floor.
We are having an open house for the school in feb and during the open house meeting -- the art teacher comes up with the brilliant idea that we have a english compo competition nationwide to ask students to apply and then when they come can have more pple for the open house - wonderful idea! but me and another colleague looked at each other and went " Well we have to think abt the marking!'' His comment? Oh typical teachers, you think only of the marking load'' Can you imagine? Could be more than a 1000 scripts! and i only have 9 teachers. Arghhhh - I just told them to take down the idea - we still have to get approval from the P. If they go ahead with it - i m going to ask them to hire a person to sit and look through all the scripts!
I tell u the way they do thing really drives me up the wall! No planning ahead or looking at whether we have the facilities, logistics and so on. First they decide then later sit down and think how to solve the problems. I give u an example. They decided to reshuffle classes in sec 2 according to ability so three of the classes became 4. They already decided to do it then they sat down and thought " which students in which class", Then do we have enough teachers, then after that do we have enough classrooms and then realise some of the extra classes have no whiteboard. So they move down the sec1s to make space to classes that have no aircons ( we have locked windows due to air and noise pollution outside so zero air circulation) They add in the whiteboards and guess what - its too high. Nobody says anything until a day had almost ended when i went into class and had a neck cramp trying to reach the top of the board!!! So today the sec1s moved again temporarily to another class until the aircon is fixed. One rash action = many consequences.