We had a short day last week. Not enough time for a full lesson, and several periods had just come off a legit hard test.
I put this up on the monitor at the front of the class.
“What’s that?” someone asked when they came into the room, pointing in genuine perplexity at the cryptic (?) glyph.
“It’s our plan for the period,” I said. There was an almost-audible sign in the room.
Of course that wasn’t quite true. (Of course it wasn’t.) There were kids who worked on test corrections. There were kids who worked on missing assignments. There were kids studying for other classes.
But there were no phones (as is the case every day this year, now that the legislature has our back on at least that issue).