Typical...You Just Gotta Laugh!

Yesterday, after being in school for 2.5 weeks and wondering when our kids who qualified for extra educational support services were going to start getting pulled, we got this email: "You are receiving this email because you have students in your classes that are either placed in Language!, or going to be tested for possible placement in Language! We are 99.9% confident that the kids being tested are going to qualify for Language! services. The attachment shows all the kids and the times they attend. • All of Ms. ELL Teacher’s kids are being tested next week for Language!. They qualify for placement based on their most current DIBELS (and their MSP scores for 5th graders). • The Ms. Intervention Specialist kids that have (test) after their name qualify for placement and need to take the Placement Test. Most likely they will qualify and will stay in Language! with me. The kids that have (will be exited) after their names will finish Language! in the next few weeks and will move out of the Language program, most likely, and back into the classroom as Tier 2 kids. The kids that have (could be exited) will be in Language! for the next few weeks as we finish Book A, and, depending on their end of book assessments, could be exited from the program. I won’t know until we finish the end of book assessments. • The Ms. Special Ed Teacher kids are in the Language! program at the times listed. We will start on Monday! Please notice not all kids are out of CORE for the entire CORE time. As the classroom teacher, it is your responsibility to differentiate instruction daily, especially on Fridays when the Language! students are NOT pulled out for Language!. We are here to offer support w/ materials and ideas, just let us know if you need anything!" So, that was a lot of information to digest, and all of us classroom teachers did just that. But then only ten minutes later came an update to that email: "...An update, just for Wednesday, September 19th: Students in Ms. ELL Teacher or Ms. Intervention Specialist’s morning Language! groups will not be pulled on Wednesday. Sorry for the early cancelation, but this is so that we can support two of our teachers as they go out to observe master teachers at another school – it’s a great opportunity for them! Thanks for understanding..." So we are starting, bet then some groups are stopping, pay attention, teachers, and then we are starting again...Good Grief! I think I will really lose my mind this year. But I thought it was hysterical to see the update only 10 minutes later. I just laugh and think, "Now that will go into my blog!" You gotta laugh, you know? I just can't make this stuff up.