Ranting ahead! Skip to second paragraph if you just want to see what's up with the matrix.
Hhhmmm... lovely story to continue on the Black Hole Beaudry entry. So, as I was coming from Beaudry, I decided to go to Hi-Fi Town (Historic Filipino Town) and visit some friends at SIPA; instead, I get a wonderful weird explosion of coolant causing a complete stall of my car. So, it had to be towed to my family's mechanic. I was admittedly sad. Oh well. Thank goodness for my ATT Roadside Assistance. Never thought I'd have to use it but it finally came in handy. Anyways, I want to plug my family's mechanic, Atlantic Tires, on Fairfax and Santa Monica. Please ask for Tito and mention me. Very good and efficient mechanic and wonderful people to boot. I guess this misfortune gave me the fortune of going to see Tito.
Anyways, today is a continuation of the gridlock from Thursday. I decided to see what would happen if I allowed 6th, 7th and 8th graders to have the same PE to see if it could accomodate the 1/3rd of the 7th graders and to see if I could accomodate teacher requests. As a result, I had to parcel out the electives away from PE and instead of the 7th graders being shut out of classes, now it was the 8th graders who were locked into one of two electives. I kept trying to make it work and it just wouldn't. I will try to work this out again tonight but it just seems like in order to give everyone their teaching preference, we will have to lock ourselves into a certain schedule which inevitably people will be unhappy with because it means that the electives dictate what classes students take. Long run-on stream-of-consciousness there.
I decided to look away from the matrix and focus in on other tasks needed. I was getting a headache from going in circles with the matrix.
PSAT Documentations needed for fee waivers: faxed!!! Please, please, please, PSAT approve it. Our students need this gosh-darn fee waivers.
Yay! We finally received our WASC letter (we are accredited for K-11th until 2014) and I faxed it over to UCOP! Please hurry up and let us have our accounts so that we can send our course listing to UCOP
NCAA Course Listing: oh, this is going to be another huge task trying to get all these courses over to the NCAA Eligibility Center. As it is, our current 12th grader athletes were supposed to register for the Eligibility Center by the end of their 11th grade year. IF I leanred anything from Westchester High School, this NCAA recruiters don't play! Anyways, if we want our students to play college athletics, we need to get our NCAA butts in gear.
Students made strides with our college database which students compiled for us. I am hoping to do a mass-mailout to colleges to send us their promotional catalogues, brochures, etc. Hopefully, I will use that same database to set-up a whole school college fair. But, I don't want to do it alone by myself for the other schools to benefit and not offered any assistance. I've offered collaboration before and people seem willing not to collaborate. Frustration city! If you want to look at the database and input into the database, looky here!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtFGKQmm1-FEdG9lV0R1QVJVcWlLbHlkZmV2dUtzbHc&hl=en_US
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