10/11 Thoughts

I feel like the big thing that came across to me from Saturday's proceedings were the fact that if it can happen, it will happen. In just a little over a month in my new position at DMS, I have encountered several incidents that I would never have realized, or thought about. I think that you learn to rely on the student handbook for discipline procedures and the board policy book for other matters. I feel like our discussions Saturday confirmed what I have found out on the job very quickly. I have found that I get to school very early (6:00am) just so that I can get my "paper work" done so that I will be able to focus my time and energy on what I call the "bombs" that drop throughout the course of the day. These range from student discipline to needing subs, to referees cancelling out on games. In other words if it can happen, it will happen! I think that I spend an awful lot of my spare time on possible scenarios and how I might handle them. This class will be a good reminder and I am sure it will prepare us for these type of scenarios that can, and will, happen.