Ever Learning

Today my principal sate me down with some bad news.  She said we were losing a teacher.  The "powers-that-be" called to say we had to give up a teacher.  It looked like we were going to have to collapse a class and combine another to make things works.  We felt bad about this becasue we have so man new teachers this year that we felt no one was strong anough to handle a combined class.  We were sad about this because we feel the children suffer when we stretch ourselves so tightly.  So the principal pulled out her calculator, teacher to student ratio sheet and we did the math.  She also showed me her teacher allotment sheet so when we put our heads together, we found the mistake.  We were being counted inccorectly it appeared we were given an additional Pre-K class that has already been counted in our allotment.  Our Pre-K student enrollment was higher than we anticipated but it was already counted in our allotment.  The principal informed her supervisor who said sh'ed get back to us.  In the end, we did not lose a teacher, nor di we gain one.  IFrom this experience I learned how political this job really is.  I guess all's fair in love and war, but NOT in education.  Wow!