Second Week of School

The honeymoon is over.  The kids are definitely feeling a bit comfortable with being back at school.  Three suspensions last week.  Not good.  Two of them involved a fight after school.  There are just too many of them and not enough of us.  Our rec aide budget has been almost slashed in half.  If we could double our rec aide staff, I'm sure we would have very few problems.  A larger rec aide staff would mean I could have rec aides assist with supervision of recess (which is also a problem time - but shouldn't be).  Such a small amount of money would make such a huge impact.  We'll continue to do the best we can with what we have.