School ends June 18th, so today is the start of the last four weeks of school. My students are checking out mentally. Many have already informed me that they have no intention of coming to school once it gets to be hot and sunny on a regular basis. They already have a bad track record of attending when it rains (which is sort of justifiable, since so many walk to school). Today is supposed to be rainy and 75 degrees.
So if we combine the factors of rain, high temperatures, end of the year, and Monday, I wonder what attendance will be like today....
Hopefully, high, because I am teaching exciting stuff today (and starting a new unit -- ecology! -- in biology). But attendance is a very sobering matter.
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