One of the other teachers calls conference day the love fest. Parents are, without exception, grateful for the work that we do with their kids and not one of mine made any excuses for their children if they weren't doing well. The teachers I talked to all agreed that the question you get from the parents is, "What can I do to help?" The high school parents are less likely to come to conference day - the older the student the more they are responsible for their own education, maybe? If this were Lee's blog he may have more to say about some of the high schoolers and their lack of commitment to his classes. Maybe I should have him do a guest column.
Today Lee is spending the day with the 6th grade volleyball teams (boys and girls) at their tournaments in Taichung. It's 5:45 and he just walked out the door. He's hoping to be back by 8:30 tonight. It's not exactly how he'd like to be spending his Saturday but the coaching commitment here is a far cry from his days at Westminster. The volleyball season ran about 10 weeks, practiced twice a week for a little over an hour a day and Lee only went to one of their games since the various coaches take turns running practice and going to games.
He has now fulfilled his after school commitment at KAS, although he can always volunteer for more as the year moves along. We are required to do something with the students after school (once a week, 3-4:30) one of the quarters. I'm putting mine off until the last quarter and plan to offer weaving to the upper elementary kids. I already run a middle school weaving club, so I should be ready to face the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders by springtime. Hopefully I will have convinced the school to buy some looms by then. The middle school students helped me build this one and it's working okay.
Anybody who knows what a loom is supposed to look like, go ahead and laugh. Personally, I'm quite proud of it and made an even better second one.
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