diane just told us that she is about to become the director of career services. this is going to be a huge change for our office, not to mention a huge burden that she is going to have to take on. she does not get along with the current director of career services and having diane as a supervisor is going to be this woman’s worst nightmare. this change is also going to take diane out of the office all of the time now, so i’m hardly ever going to get to see her. this is basically going to give howard free reign to come in and out as he pleases and that is going to be really annoying.
angel tree is almost ready to go out. our secretary and student workers did a really good job of keeping track of all the gifts, so all we have to do is drop them off at the salvation army on thursday. we had 100 tags and we were able to give all of them out. As of now, we are only missing 2 and i think one of them is coming in later today or tomorrow morning, so i’m not too concerned. we also got a few extras, so i think that we should be all set.
one of the most annoying things about the end of the semester are all of the students coming by at the last mintue looking for community service for a class requirement. especially when they need something on campus because they don’t have any transportation. I have a list of things that i can reccomend to them, but i can’t guarantee anything. i’ve been threatening too to have them walk around millersville and pick up garbage if they absolutely can’t get hours anywhere else. not that i want to walk around in the cold with them, but i’d rather them complete their hours than just take the loss of credit and probably still pass the class.
i am very glad that i’m not going to be around for this civic engagement requirement next year. i think that even if it does pass, it’s going to take so much work to get the campus community behind this change in curriculum that it’s really going to be more of a curse than a blessing. my main concern is that students are just going to do whatever they can to complete the requiremnt that they’re not actually going to get anything significant out of the requirement. this could also give them a bad impression of how amazing service can actually be, and that completely defeats the purpose of the engagement requirement in the first place. too bad dr.allen doesn’t want to hear a single negative thing about this requirement and he won’t listen to anything except his own big fat voice. can you tell i’m not upset our staff meeting was cancelled this morning??? haha.
tutoring is going really well at mccaskey and we are now trying to expand to the boys and girls club program at king elementary as well. we just had out tutoring appreciation reception yesterday, which nobody really came to, but it was nice to recognize the tutors for all of their hard work. plus i got cake and a huge candy bar. i’m concerned about recruiting more tutors for next semester, but i guess that there is nothing i can do about it until the spring semester starts up. unfortunately, i don’t think that any of our current tutors will be around over the break, but a few of them are coming back in the spring. we are losing many of them to student teaching, but hopefully the ones that were teaching last semester will be interested in getting some extra experience. at the high school, we just hired staff tutors and it’s been a really big change for the high school students. they were used to being able to do whatever they wanted, but now they’re expected to complete work and only be on the websites that are academic and pre-approved. plus the snacks are later, because most of the kids don’t get back on task after snack. it is nice for me to have some disciplinarians in the house. the kids don’t really listen to me, they know i’m the pushover and i’m there more to keep them on task and form relationships with them. i do think that this heavy handed discipline that the teachers have been using is starting to drive the students away, but there isn’t anything that i can do about it. if the staff tutors expect the students to sit and do their work and the students show up to screw around, then they need to understand that they are going to get kicked out. i just get upset when they are asked to leave and i know that their parents aren’t coming until 5:30 or they need to wait for the bus. the staff tutors don’t make sure the kids go outside after they leave the library, so those kids are going to get into trouble wandering around the building, or if they do go outside, they have to walk home or wait in the cold. i’m not cool with that. it’s so hard to be consistant when there are so many different people trying to run the show. but i guess that’s the world of education. i am so glad that i changed my major. thank god. i love tutoring for a few hours a day, but i don’t think that i could be in the classroom day in and day out not to mention having to deal with the bullshit buerocracy of the administration. it’s bad enough in higher ed, but at least here i have some autonomy. it seems like everyone in the high school is fighting for power and nobody really has any. but they like to think they do.
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