Sunday, June 05, 2005
A full day about to get underway – my weekends are decent with the exception of one kids’ class that is out of control. There are ten students aged six through ten (quite a spread) and several of them have zero attention span, consequently distracting the others and myself before we can even get underway. I have kind of given up on them, and though I am not proud to say it, I focus much more on crowd control than actual teaching. It fits really. Some parents drop their kids of at nine o’clock in the morning and pick them up mid-afternoon for a 10 to 12 lesson. If the term glorified babysitting was thrown around a lot in Nova (Japan) then I think we can drop the ‘glorified’ when talking about this set up.