00:00 - 00:05 | So that morning, one of the staff said, "Risitas, come over here. Look what we decided on to make |
00:05 - 00:07 | MHHS better." I looked at his desk and saw papers |
00:07 - 00:10 | with "no homework" or "no testing" with a "REJECTED" stamp. |
00:11 - 00:16 | So I asked him, "How are we going to do that when all the good ideas are rejected?" |
00:17 - 00:21 | He said, "We are simply going to remove extended lunch." |
00:21 - 00:24 | It's true! |
00:29 - 00:31 | And the new class won't worry |
00:31 - 00:34 | as they never had it and the seniors would have left! |
00:38 - 00:40 | *incoherent laughing* |
00:41 - 00:47 | In the large campus, getting to the cafeteria itself takes 5 minutes, then we cram a class of 1,600 kids into a tiny little lunch |
00:47 - 00:50 | line which takes 15 minutes to get lunch itself, and 5 |
00:50 - 00:56 | minutes to eat and hang out, and 5 more to get to class! |
00:58 - 00:59 | We're looking at 15-20 minutes |
00:59 - 01:01 | of break for all 7-8 hours of school! |
01:04 - 01:06 | And class is still mandatory! |
01:06 - 01:08 | The A+ kids will flock the teacher... |
01:13 - 01:14 | ...while the ACTUALLY failing |
01:14 - 01:16 | kids will just sit until the bell rings! |
01:16 - 01:20 | A's will be A's and F's will be F's |
01:21 - 01:27 | While I took that in, he said, "We'll start taking attendances for flex!" Kids that use 1st flex to sleep are screwed! |
01:35 - 01:36 | Logic of the century: |
01:36 - 01:39 | "a high schooler with less break that a kindergartner" |
01:41 - 01:44 | But in all seriousness, I did think, "How will the kids |
01:44 - 01:47 | react?" I mean they are just 15-16 year olds. It's not like |
01:47 - 01:49 | they use lunch hang out or something. |
01:50 - 01:53 | They also won't petition or anything like that. |
01:54 - 01:56 | After all that I asked, |
01:56 - 01:58 | "What else do you have in mind?" He |
01:58 - 02:02 | told me that we might need to randomly change students' schedules! |
02:05 - 02:07 | And he told it with a straight face! |
02:10 - 02:11 | Like the- |
02:11 - 02:13 | Like the world was waiting for this! |
02:15 - 02:17 | He ALSO told me might not even |
02:17 - 02:20 | send emails telling them if they got a change! |
02:21 - 02:28 | So they will manually go onto Aires of Flextime manager to check, but even then the servers will be down! They'll be completely lost! |
02:29 - 02:30 | -No way! |
02:30 - 02:32 | It is so! |
02:36 - 02:39 | They'll need to re-memorize in less than a day or be lost! |
02:40 - 02:42 | The tardy office will be packed! |
02:50 - 02:55 | After processing all that, I told the staff member, "Wow, these are some nice ideas!" |
02:56 - 02:58 | -How did he respond? |
02:58 - 03:04 | He said, "I'm sure the teachers and students will love the changes! Less lunch time, random schedule changes, |
03:04 - 03:09 | attendance for flex, and more mandatory studying!" |
03:09 - 03:11 | "And 30 minutes will surely help EVERY kid!" |
03:16 - 03:20 | "Especially the failing kids!" |
03:23 - 03:26 | So I walked out of the office after that thinking, |
03:31 - 03:36 | "Nice to see our school is headed in the right direction!" |