WALL-OF-TEXT ALERT BUT IMPORTANT!!!
Hello everyone! Happy Summer! I hope that wherever you are summer is treating you just fine. As for me, well, I'm working in my job as a substitute. Less pay for the same work right? Yay me!
Anyways, while I am working on the matrix for Fall, I thought I would share my thoughts regarding the matter. I am titling this one THE KARMAGEDDON!!!
As I began to work on the matrix, looking at the numbers for middle school, everything was going just fine.
6th grade matrix - CHECK! ALL DONE! JUST FINE! Except with a not so bad snafu with PE and Social Justice. BUT IT WORKS
8th/7th grade matrix Scenario 1 (Please look at attachment) - Yay, it works just fine for the teachers. WAIT! STOPPED IN THE TRACKS!!! DO NOT PASS GO! This is where I ran into the problem. The problem is this. The problem lies in that a 1/3rd of the 7th graders would not be able to take PE and 1/3rd of the 7th graders would not be able to take an elective. Also, this would also mean that for the second year in a row, electives and PE dictated where students are placed in their core-classes. I tried many, many different scenarios moving teachers, PE, Electives around and it could not get it to work for 7th grade. A third of the 7th graders would have a hole in their schedule.
8th grade matrix Scenario 2 (Please look at attachment) - Whoa! Everything worked! Core-classes work! Core-classes are freed from being dictated by PE and electives! :-D Great right? NOPE! THE KARMAGEDDON posed another problem! This scenario had English, History and Math teachers teaching during the same period. Aya! This scenario has it so that Nick would not be able to teach both 7th and 8th. This includes the new Social Studies teacher and the NEW Math teacher. Science is unaffected because Bagorio is teaching 11th and 8th. That worked out just fine.
So, I am halted in progressing further as this problem in 7th and 8th grade trickles down to high school.
What to do!?!
Well, I don't know but I'm off to see Harry Potter in 3D and hopefully something magical will happen to this KARMAGEDDON MATRIX.
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