Post Spring Break

Everyone agrees that after the break, the end of the semester should be much closer than it actually is. We still have an additional 7 weeks to go. Most of my students are actually in class, however, probably because we are reviewing for the midterm next week. I give them more difficult review material than I plan to include in the test. Better that than the reverse, I learned the hard way.

For fun, in my sleepy early class, I let the students form a union and outline a list of their demands from management (me). It was kind of fun. They asked for things like kegs of beer, I offered to bring in iced tea. They asked for no homework on Thursdays and I did away with one of the essays on the syllabus. They asked for field trips, movies, music, beer pong, a buffet and various other items on which we compromised, agreeing, for example to provide the first three items in the above list, which I will manage to use to their educational advantage.

Two of the girls in my second class have been systematically ten minutes late to nearly every class. On Tuesday, the other students and I agreed during the first ten minutes before the two lategirls arrived that they would have to submit only the final proofread draft of the next essay due, while the tardy two would have to submit all drafts as was originally assigned, because they had arrived too late to hear the amended assignment.

On Thursday, the two were on time.