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charisstomaMy school building houses two separate schools. One starts at 7:50 and the other at 9:20 in the morning.
At 9:00 am most of the 2nd school would have been in the cafeteria eating breakfast if it's needed or they are socializing. Some students are around the school doing tutoring or trying to get work accomplished that needs to be done with a partner and usually is due eeek that day/next class period/ before lunch/eeek.
Usually fire drills are nosy things, almost festive.
Today we had a fire drill that wasn't a drill at about 9:00. Sooooooo nice to see the students that, depending where they were at the time, were finally taking a fire drill seriously. There was non-panicky concern on their faces as they ran down the hall to the exit. All those drills paid off.
Okay they aren't supposed to run but still... They knew what to do. *grins* Of course those that went out the back door where I was going would have had to change their exiting. The fire alarm was due to an overdone breakfast potpie in a classroom microwave that was in a room just before the door exit. One fire drill a month. Next month we probably need to practice the blocked exit find another door fire drill.
Still so proud of the students though.
At 9:00 am most of the 2nd school would have been in the cafeteria eating breakfast if it's needed or they are socializing. Some students are around the school doing tutoring or trying to get work accomplished that needs to be done with a partner and usually is due eeek that day/next class period/ before lunch/eeek.
Usually fire drills are nosy things, almost festive.
Today we had a fire drill that wasn't a drill at about 9:00. Sooooooo nice to see the students that, depending where they were at the time, were finally taking a fire drill seriously. There was non-panicky concern on their faces as they ran down the hall to the exit. All those drills paid off.
Okay they aren't supposed to run but still... They knew what to do. *grins* Of course those that went out the back door where I was going would have had to change their exiting. The fire alarm was due to an overdone breakfast potpie in a classroom microwave that was in a room just before the door exit. One fire drill a month. Next month we probably need to practice the blocked exit find another door fire drill.
Still so proud of the students though.
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Date: 2013-09-24 05:14 am (UTC)(I'm sick, this makes my quirky neuroses - one of which is needing things to have clearly defined boundaries so I can tuck them neatly into boxes and classify them appropriately - harder to deal with).
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Date: 2013-09-24 06:04 am (UTC)The earlier starting school is actually 2 separate schools, Middle School(ages 11 to 14) and High School(ages 14 to 18) but all the students are non-English speakers.
The later starting school are local students who should have adequate capabilities with English and are Middle School age but are learning using a different method than normal district classes.
Theoretically the two schools wound up together because the Federal government had rules that the ESL (English as a Second Language) students needed to interact with English speaking students. Both schools originally were small and were odd balls so they stuck them together and repurposed their school buildings with those neighborhood's students.
*laughs* Sometimes I can't tell which school the student is from by looking at them. Both schools have a large Hispanic population but the ESL school has students from wherever there's a war or disruption that results in refugees and any other student who is non-English speaking.
We started off with students on all one floor. Then we added the second floor and later the basement which is shared with another sector of the school district's hierarchy. Eventually I expect that that area will be swallowed up into more classrooms. We still have temporary buildings outside that can be turned into classrooms if there's need. The ESL school's population waxs and wanes as students enter and exit throughout the school year.
The Library serves both student populations. But the schools don't really interact together all that much. The Middle Schools still sometimes will share physical education classes but the High School never does.
The building itself is very large. The ESL school has something like 50 staff members and takes up 3/4ths of the building. Buses are needed because both schools draw from across the city, which is large. They have to stagger buses to get everybody here.
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Date: 2013-09-24 09:10 am (UTC)Also, tell my muses to stop bugging me, they have so many fics they want me to ninja write for you.
Wait . . . wrong person to ask.
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Date: 2013-09-24 04:36 pm (UTC)