The Problem with Partnering Kids...

... is that you leave 2 behind instead of one. Oops!! Last Friday the 4th grade had a field trip to the Prado Museum. (I don't work Fridays, so I heard the story at work on Monday.) After the visit everyone was late getting back onto the bus to get back to school on time. Everyone just ran onto the bus and they took off. On the bus was the head director of the school, the bilingual coordinator (my direct boss), and a few other teachers. As another auxiliar, Leigh, said, normally there would have been at least 3 or 4 head counts, but no, there was nothing. So how did the teachers find out that 2 kids had been left? Not when they did a head count, not when they noticed an empty seat on the bus, not when another student asked where they were, but when they were halfway back to the school and someone from the museum called them and told them they had left 2 kids behind. At least they were in the museum and not wandering the streets of Madrid by themselves. I always hated having to wait in elementary school while teachers counted us over and over again, but at least none of us ever got left anywhere! I guess it's true that all is well that ends well.