This year I am blessed with the highest numbers of my short and semi-illustrious teaching career. I have 38 desks, and about 38 students in each class. I have one of 40 and a big winner of 42. One student uses a barstool for a desk. Another uses a clip board. In another class, student 39 sits on the barstool and uses counter space in the back. With the exception of one student who has been absent, EVERY SINGLE ONE turned in their first assignment, and most were well done. Given, it wasn’t exceptionally challenging (it did require grappling with a graduate-student level vocabulary word), but I didn’t even have to force anyone to come after to complete the thing.
Thankfully it was an easy one to grade, and all 180 of them look dang cool plastered upon the back of my classroom.
Assignment number two is a bit meatier, and tomorrow I begin tracking down the 20 or so stragglers after school.
