School is almost here!

Well, the fall 2006 semester is upon us. I can’t believe that summer vacation is almost over (it went too fast!)—I actually just finished writing my course syllabi/policies. It is much different from a university syllabus where you would plan out the entire semester with all of the assignments clearly outlined in advanced. I guess we don’t want to scare high school students as much as we want to scare college students with the hope that the college students will drop the class and we won’t be stuck with too many of them. We don’t really have that option in high school. Sure, you want to scare them a little so that they will stay on task, but students don’t really have as a choice to drop the course unless it is an elective. In my case, I guess they could opt for Japanese, French or Latin if they don’t like Spanish, but of course everyone loves my Spanish class! (BTW the picture is me in Barcelona a few years ago.)