2008, #3, And So it Begins

Schedules started to be passed out today. For anyone who works in education at the high school level, today is the day everything becomes hectic. We have started, for the first time, to actually pass the schedules out a full week and a half before the first day of school, with the counselors starting early as well. This allows us to change schedules prior to the start of school, as opposed to a week or two into it.

Of course, no one is ever satisfied, and I ran into a couple of parents who just don't understand their kid isn't the only one in the school.

Here's a ten minute (paraphrased) conversation I had today:

"I specifically asked that my daughter have US History and Chemistry earlier in the day. She's in sports. These are her bad subjects. Don't you even read the requests? Why are you setting my child up to fail?"

"I'm not sure what you mean. I understand that students want certain classes at certain times of the day, but we can't always honor those requests. All the US History classes are impacted, I can't move anyone out of them.

"But my daughter is a good kid, and now she's going to fail because of you."

Continue this, adding what you will, but ultimately I apparently set up all schedules, I try to screw as many people as possible, and really would like to make sure all students fail. THIS is the very reason I'm in education.

This of course, was in addition to, "This teacher hates my kid, my kid can't pass this class."

Have any of these people ever heard of self-fulfilling prophesies?

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