Summer School revisited...

The Predominant Cause of Red Eye It came to my attention yesterday that I haven’t written very much about my Summer School experience ( aside from my initial entry called “Students & Computers” and the one about “Cognitive Inconsistency” ). I think the main reason is that nothing much has really happened. The students have been working away on their computers. I’ve had to stop blogging (?!) every few minutes to help them out — and, yes, I’m gaining even more useless knowledge (e.g., gene mapping and diploid organisms, advanced geometric equations, complex sentences with averbial clauses, etc.). But, nothing too dramatic has happened — we have had to expell a few of our kids from Ozanam for being involved in fights or threatening other students and staff and such, but that’s pretty standard fare during the regular school year. These “regular” kids are just too easy.

A bunch of students have already completed their classes. We give them four weeks worth of three-and-a-half hour classes; some of them finished in two and three weeks. A couple of weeks ago, I started staying at school until 5:20pm to allow a bunch of kids who are “not allowed to be in the general school population” to have a chance to complete their courses. A few of these kids were able to take all of the tests, without viewing the lessons and finish their courses in a couple of days. Amazing.

Needless to say, there has not been a lot of material for me to write on about this experience. I thank God that He’s given me this job (and the time that I’ve had to do a bunch of my own stuff while here). After today, there are just 5 more days to go.