what a long day, back is killing me, too much standing up but I did my school board duty for the year.
It actually was great fun sitting in on classes all morning.
Kids are a lot smarter than we were, I looked at the algebra on the board ????????.
All the classrooms have electronic white boards, all kids from second grade up get a chrome book and later an Ipad.
When they get to sixth grade, they get their own Ipad. Chrome books stay in classroom. Those are used for Google lookups and such but
in a very restricted space. Younger kids do programmed learning I guess on them, but the kids were paying attention to the teacher, not the screens.
Probably learned that on the first day there...
youngest kids the most fun, Kindergarten, first grade. I got to tell them I went there in 1rst grade too.
They probably didn't realize the school was that old....

Lot more kids of color, that made me feel good. More diversity overall, big push for the school. All kinds of diversity. Still a pretty lily white school because
that is the area.
One little girl (boy?...sorry) had the most marvelous styled Afro. Big thing, stuck out every which way, super nice kid
Everyone is dressed very nicely. Most come from upper income homes.
I ate lunch with one sixth grader. He was pretty stuffy, he signed up for the lunch to get credit. Never asked me a question, I had to pry
stuff out of him. Oh well. When the buzzer went off, he lept off back to class.
Last year the young lady was a delight. Luck of the draw.
lot of tech but the message was the same, math is still math, and I was barely able to keep up in beginning French class.
Very important to walk into French class with a Bonjour and leave with a Merci. Same with Spanish, got my muchas gracias in
while leaving. Which pretty well consumes ten percent of my Spanish knowledge. Gosh I wish I had studied Spanish instead of French.
knowing how to properly pronounce escargot has not really helped me all that much...
walked and walked the campus many times, am tuckered out. Very cool to see the new construction and we went into the new gym while it was being built.
For generations of people waiting for that new gym, this was an exciting day to see it being built. Much smaller than big high school gyms, there wasn't even room for bleachers
before. Now it gets a couple small rows. They wanted the building to blend in, keep same proportions as before but half again larger, not three times larger. It's an old colonial property owned by Buckingham Friends Meeting so everything has to look conservative and enduring.
these kids, all kids, are our future.
we need them as smart and as nice as can be.
I will go off the board next June feeling good.
time to turn my brain off. It's worn out...