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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Again I will be continuing a topic that I started in the “safe for students” post. I really wish I had more happenings where I could do this more often, to be able to show the sides of the inner workings of education that our students should know and that the students are better off (on the part of the teachers) not knowing.

It would have been nice if the parents had involved the teachers in the planning of the Parents’ Day, instead of just relying on the Director of Student Affairs, who also has teaching load, by the way, just because he sits in at their meetings in the school on certain Saturdays.

I believe the proposal, since the parents first brought it up with their idea of a shirt design contest at the start of the second term, could have been announced in the middle of our monthly faculty meeting.

I can see the points about not involving the students and probably even wanting to surprise the students about how much fun hanging out with their parents in front of their classmates could be, but were they planning on a surprise for the teachers too, which was why as far as we were concerned there was a news black out on the developments of the preparation?

I don’t think so, because the invitation to the teachers to attend was only given the afternoon of the day before the event.

At the best I would have felt like a bystander in the event if I had no set role in the entire day’s schedule, except maybe to be dragged into the various sports activities (maybe at the last minute because there were not enough participants) that it would also have been nice if we had been informed of beforehand, instead of going there in our rubber shoes and playing clothes without any idea what games we were going to play.

I don’t even think it would be petty to complain, “that it is our school too”.

Maybe, just maybe, we would have offered to facilitate some events that they hadn’t thought of. We, after all, see a side of their children that they might not be aware of, and thus we may have missed a golden opportunity of enlightening them about their offspring’s “hidden” and not necessarily strictly scholastic talents.

Setting up a caricature drawing booth, for example, or “Beat Our Trivia Masters”, with their children as the attractions.

Well, it’s too late for any of that now. We will just have to wait until next school year to have a chance to open up about our ideas and suggestions.

We do, after all, also have their children’s best interests at heart.

Session 847 received the invitation late. Class dismissed.