..how's this for ambivalence-causing...the administration that utterly ignored our polite conversations, letters, pleas, etc for more than a year, has decided, entirely on their own, to provide what I was planning to scheme, politic, volunteer, and manipulate to eventually get - they've decided to rework their entire first grade to do flexible groupings and have the kids travel to different classrooms for different level work, so that the teachers don't each have to try to straddle such a great range of needs in the classroom. They're going to trade off which teacher gets what group, too, so everyone gets to work on novels or what have you. The teachers seem happy, and we're thrilled.
Oh! That is wonderful news! ((tears of happiness))
And it seems totally normal to me that your emotional reaction is .... anger! Mine would be too!
Because as long as the school is being unsupportive, there is part of me that worries that they are right! Then when they come around to my way of thinking, I feel confident enough to be really really mad. Weird but true.
