Back to School Night

Today was back to school night. But first I still had to teach my one class. Today was a review day before their first test which will be on Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday are block days so I do not teach tomorrow. There are two 30 minutes FLEX periods on Wednesday for students to seek extra help or do other activities. I will not be around for those. That did not make my students happy. A large number are expecting to fail since they do not feel they learned anything in their class before switching. But none of them did any of the review problems to ask questions in class today either. Nor did they choose to stay after class to ask more questions. It will be a rude awakening for many of them. In order to do a retake they need to correct the test, write a reflection on what went wrong and what they are doing now, and do additional HW problems on the sections they need to improve. So they will either be a chapter behind for a while, or they will need to do double HW for a while.
However one student did stay and ask questions. As a result I was walking to my car at 4:05 to go home for a couple of hours and I had to ask the maintenance person to not lock the gate to the teachers parking under the football bleachers. They were locking the gate between 4 and 6. I am not sure why.
I only have one class so I only needed to be at BTSN from 9 to 9:10. I arrived early to hopefully meet the person I share the room with, watch someone else give their presentation to parents for the same class and make sure my presentation was ready. Only the middle one went according to plan. I missed the teacher because I was observing the other presentation. My presentation, which looked good at home, did not work at school, so I had to do some last minute recreation.
However it still went well. I met the parents outside my door, started on time, and stayed late to answer questions. Most parents were supportive, they were glad for the smaller classes and believed the glowing recommendation that the principal wrote about me. One parent did quiz me on my credentials, and another explained that her child really loved his old teacher, and if he couldn't switch back will want to set up a meeting. Overall, very not a bad third day teaching.