Last night we had our Meet the Teacher Night for the entire district.  We also had a ribbon cutting ceremony for our new school.  It was awesome.  I met about a third of my new students.  Some of them I knew from last year on the play ground and some of them are brand new.  Our community is growing so fast we registered 180 new students just this week.  I don't know what will happen on Monday when school actually starts.  Where is the housing slow-down that they keep talking about?  It sure isn't in our district.  There are hundreds of homes going up every day.  In fact, the builder said they were completing 250 new homes each week!  We were designed for 850 kids and we are already up to 975.  We just opened!

We have new books, desks, everything.  It is awesome.  However, our reading and Science books have not been delivered yet.  Opps.  I hope they come quick.  As a veteran teacher, I am quite capable of teaching from other resources.  My job is to make sure the other three new teachers can do it as well.  I have to do the copying for them and it takes a lot of time.  I am lucky to be experienced.

Our kids start at 7:30.  That means they get dropped off at 7:00 in the morning.  That means I have to leave the house at 5:30 to make sure I get there in time.  The construction is going to kill me.  It goes the entire first quarter.  In the past, we started at 8:30 and the parents still dropped their kids off from 6:00 on.  They don't want before school care because they don't want to pay for it.  So, they just leave their kids on empty playgrounds with no one to watch them.  If anything happens, I imagine the school will get sued.  I never left my kids like that.  Now we can lock the gates until 7:00 am.  I wonder what is going to happen this year.  What are those parents going to do?