High Turnover

One of the service department girls had her last day today. She was going to get another job at an apartment complex, being a secretary or front desk worker there, I'm not sure. I was talking to some of the other teachers about this, since there has been some heavy turnover in that department. The truth of the matter is that they are not treated that well. They are forced to come in on Saturday even if there is nothing to do. I have seen them just sitting there painting their nails on Saturday because they have to be at school.

One Saturday, they actually had to clean out a sewage drain or something like that. They took pictures and showed them to me the following week. I can see how there is a lot of turnover in that department. If they don't treat them well, they will eventually leave. It may not be easy for them to find another job without much free time, but they won't be at the school long.

On another note, it looks like I will be teaching a high school math class next year, even with the difference in the schedules for the middle school and high school. The middle school will be on 8- 37 minute bells while the high school will be on 4-70 minute bells. I just found out today that our numbers are dropping so much that there will only be one class in each middle school grade. So that would take up 3 of the 8 middle school bells. Giving me a high school class will take up another two and that would make 5 of the 8 total bells of me having a class.

I could handle that since I would have more prep time than I have now and I would be able to teach a high school class. It looks like it would be Pre-Calculus. I was tutoring a girl with geometry the other day and we got into some Pre-Calc material with Sine, Cosine and Tangent. I really enjoyed it and was having a blast with it. It's been a while since I've gotten into some of the material, but I'm sure it won't be too bad, like riding a bike.

Aaron