Note: I have heard from many of you and it sounds like this is going over better than I would have expected. I will do them more often. I am also getting used to the site, now. It was very easy to set up, but not so easy to continue. Remember, any "page" I get to that I haven't actually written on, is in Chinese characters.
I had a few more comments about the school that I didn't have room for on the last post.
The building is U-shaped, covered on the outside with white tiles. The middle part of the "U" is a pretty grassy, flowery area. the bottom of the U is mostly Admin offices with the classrooms in the "uprights". All rooms have windows on both sides and open onto balcony/walkways so there is lots of light and (on the odd ocasion that there is any) and breeze. Every room has ceiling fans or we would all be dead by now. Picture 38 15-year olds in one room all day without air conditioning when the weather is 95 degrees!
Yes, the students stay in one place and the teachers go to them. Classes are heterogeneously grouped although they may not know it. Some was just coincidental. Actually, the big "cut" came earlier. At the end of elementary school, those parents who are really of an academic bent (and/or can afford it) send their kids to private school beginning in the 7th grade. We get the other 40%. They aren't slow kids (in most cases) or even really poor ones, they are what we call "country". I haven't found one yet who knows who Bush is.
It's a great school, though. The teachers are really dedicated and are less overwhelmed by the numbers than I am. Or they have gotten over it, one or the other.
I had forgotten the basic frugality of schools after working for the profligate government for 20 years. Students, and teachers, supply their own pens, paper, notebooks, and anything else you want them to have. It is also hard to ask because you don't know what will be involved with them getting it.
When you are done with the xerox machine, you turn it off. When you leave a room, you turn the fans off.
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