Today is brought to you by the number two. That’s because today all my classes where either second year high school or second year junior high school. By colossal coincidence, starting second period I taught two grade two high school classes and then two grade two junior high school classes.

The junior high school classes are the ones that worry me the most as they are the ones I can do the least about. I can make their lives unpleasant but only by making my life unpleasant.

That said, today’s classes were above average. The higher level class has a comedian who’s going to get lots of attention in the next couple weeks, but mostly they seem good. I’ll probably have to rearrange the seating chart at least once.

The lower level class consisted of the best of the students of the average students from my worst class last year.  (The best moved on to the higher level class.) They were in bad mode at first, and one student told me to speak Japanese. I told him why I wouldn’t.

By the end of the class they were doing work and being reasonably quiet. I don’t know if that will last, but I’m not dreading teaching them. Yet.