As you have probably seen already, my precious blog has undergone a few changes, most notably the epic Master Chief header at the top (courtesy of my admirable skills with Photo Studio), and a pretty new colour scheme(NO little red line, I'm CANADIAN! It's spelled colour NOT color!). The colours are subject to change until I've found ones that go best with the Chief, so don't be surprised if the colours start flashing different hues. I thought it would make it easier if I warned you beforehand. Because, you know; I'm just a nice guy.
Moving on...
I will now explain to you all why our unique school system does not work. The school basically runs on a system of agendas. Everyone has one, and we are expected to fill them out everyday and plan what we are going to do. Now, in reality, the advisors don't really care what you write in your agenda, unless you are way behind and doing really poorly. Some people hardly bother to fill them out at all, and many advisors really would find it hard to care less.
Now, in a flex block, we are required to bring our agendas for the supervising teacher to sign (proving we attended the class), but in most cases you have to actually ask for the teacher to sign your agenda, (which no one does) instead of them coming around like they are supposed to. Don't get me wrong, in some rooms, the teachers are great at signing your agenda, but usually they don't care. And frankly, neither do I.
"So," you ask, "What happens when you have to take a test, or leave the room for any other reason?" Well kids, this is where it gets tricky. See, I always thought you were to leave your agenda on the table, with it saying what you were doing. Or, you could always just tell the supervising teacher where you are going. Either one should have been fine as far as I was concerned. Apparently, I was wrong.
Yesterday after lunch, I went to a flex block in room 212. My friend was there too, but I had to leave to take a test, so I didn't have much time to talk. I got out my agenda, put it on my desk and flipped it open to the correct page where I had clearly written in the corresponding block: "test," meaning I would be taking a test in that block. I could not fathom that I had done something wrong, and now I still don't believe I did.
My friend, who was sitting beside me (but I was not there, because I was taking a test, remember), decided to take a book back to the dispensary (I think, I can't remember what book it was or where he was taking it). On the way out, he showed the teacher the book and told her where he was going. Then he left. When he got back, maybe 3 minutes later, his agenda was gone. He wasn't sure where it could have gone, maybe another student took it...but not a teacher. Usually, when a teacher takes your agenda they take all your stuff with it and bring it down to the iffice (because they think you are hall wandering or something). So it couldn't have been a teacher, after all, he told the supervising teacher what he was doing.
When I got back from the testing centre, I found that my agenda was missing too. Now we were completely confused. WHERE DID THEY GO?? Agendas are pretty important at this school, and its not easy to just get another one. We started asking some of the teachers in the room. Now it was a different block, so the supervising teacher from last block was no longer there. We managed to find a teacher that would help us, and went down to the library with her to ask the teacher who was supervising when our agendas disappeared if she knew what had happened.
"Uh...yeah, I took a bunch of agendas down to the office. You're going to have to go talk to the vice principal"....uh...why? "Because they were gone and did not say why," Yes, actually, we did.
So off to find the vice principal. Yes, he had them, but only gave them back because we had a teacher with us who knew us and knew we weren't goofing off. But first, of course, we needed a lovely lecture on what we did wrong, and why it was really our fault, not the teacher who confiscated our agendas for no reason. Even though we both had valid reasons for being out of the class AND told the teacher or wrote in our agendas about it. Well, okay, you win Mr. Vice Principal, the teenager is always wrong. I understand now. Can I have my agenda back?
Moving on...
I will now explain to you all why our unique school system does not work. The school basically runs on a system of agendas. Everyone has one, and we are expected to fill them out everyday and plan what we are going to do. Now, in reality, the advisors don't really care what you write in your agenda, unless you are way behind and doing really poorly. Some people hardly bother to fill them out at all, and many advisors really would find it hard to care less.
Now, in a flex block, we are required to bring our agendas for the supervising teacher to sign (proving we attended the class), but in most cases you have to actually ask for the teacher to sign your agenda, (which no one does) instead of them coming around like they are supposed to. Don't get me wrong, in some rooms, the teachers are great at signing your agenda, but usually they don't care. And frankly, neither do I.
"So," you ask, "What happens when you have to take a test, or leave the room for any other reason?" Well kids, this is where it gets tricky. See, I always thought you were to leave your agenda on the table, with it saying what you were doing. Or, you could always just tell the supervising teacher where you are going. Either one should have been fine as far as I was concerned. Apparently, I was wrong.
Yesterday after lunch, I went to a flex block in room 212. My friend was there too, but I had to leave to take a test, so I didn't have much time to talk. I got out my agenda, put it on my desk and flipped it open to the correct page where I had clearly written in the corresponding block: "test," meaning I would be taking a test in that block. I could not fathom that I had done something wrong, and now I still don't believe I did.
My friend, who was sitting beside me (but I was not there, because I was taking a test, remember), decided to take a book back to the dispensary (I think, I can't remember what book it was or where he was taking it). On the way out, he showed the teacher the book and told her where he was going. Then he left. When he got back, maybe 3 minutes later, his agenda was gone. He wasn't sure where it could have gone, maybe another student took it...but not a teacher. Usually, when a teacher takes your agenda they take all your stuff with it and bring it down to the iffice (because they think you are hall wandering or something). So it couldn't have been a teacher, after all, he told the supervising teacher what he was doing.
When I got back from the testing centre, I found that my agenda was missing too. Now we were completely confused. WHERE DID THEY GO?? Agendas are pretty important at this school, and its not easy to just get another one. We started asking some of the teachers in the room. Now it was a different block, so the supervising teacher from last block was no longer there. We managed to find a teacher that would help us, and went down to the library with her to ask the teacher who was supervising when our agendas disappeared if she knew what had happened.
"Uh...yeah, I took a bunch of agendas down to the office. You're going to have to go talk to the vice principal"....uh...why? "Because they were gone and did not say why," Yes, actually, we did.
So off to find the vice principal. Yes, he had them, but only gave them back because we had a teacher with us who knew us and knew we weren't goofing off. But first, of course, we needed a lovely lecture on what we did wrong, and why it was really our fault, not the teacher who confiscated our agendas for no reason. Even though we both had valid reasons for being out of the class AND told the teacher or wrote in our agendas about it. Well, okay, you win Mr. Vice Principal, the teenager is always wrong. I understand now. Can I have my agenda back?
