Here, at the halfway point of the year, there are groupings of students we have unwittingly put together that have become toxic. Teachers beg for relief and semester seems a logical time for the proverbial second chance. At first, teachers asked for the offending children to be banished. Conceding to the realities of packed classes in all teams, they came back with the proposal to trade these most trying children among the teams. Parents love it.
Children love it.
Teachers love it. Second semester is a second shot at success. And who knows, they may surprise us all. Teachers expressed the same sense of optimism and possibility. So, this was a week of trials and verdicts and truths reconsidered.