Now approximately 20 kiddos--from Deiter's, McKeithan's, and my 10th grade classes from all year--signed up to come to the "Tutoring Party" today. We promised free refreshment, and to accomodate the abundance signed up, I ordered six large pepperoni pizzas from Domino's a la Jennifer Swett and her concession stand. Granted, only about 2 who signed up on McKeithan's door bothered to indicate which weekend they were coming, this or the next. However, this does not excuse the ones who DID indicate on MY sign-up they would be here this week. We had, I believe, 11 total.
At least we polished off the pizza among the 14 of us.
Six of my girls showed up. BB was making a day up for me in Saturday Academy anyway. TB, I think, is going to come to every single tutoring unless she gets ill--which I suppose is just since she's alternately failing and marginally passing both my Spanish and English classes and smart enough she should be acing both--just not organized enough. CW didn't need it--Ms. Two-level-three-papers-in-a-row, although surprisingly she was turning out some pretty mundane stuff today. NF came. I don't know what to do with that child. Poor scatterbrained thing. She does have her moments of lucidity, though.
LC and DT from last semester also showed. Now, one had claimed personality conflicts with me before as a cause of her failing the class, but really, I'll maintain until my dying day it's her choice. She did a GREAT job today.
All girls were doing some promising work, and though they were getting frustrated (BB complained of her mind hurting, as I recall), they were getting excited toward then end and want to finish the non-assigned essays and give them to me Monday to see! Even the one who already passed the class! Ah, to have such small and motivated classes all of the time! The talent's nice too. Only two of them were ones I would say really struggle with writing...although probably two more employ punctuational and spelling practices that would cause a saint to rend their garments.
I hope the word spreads for next week. But I still think I'm going to order fewer pizzas.
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