I.T. to Teacher

Towards the end of lunch the power went out. I was watching a club meeting for a teacher, who had a meeting of her own during lunch, when the lights went out. Everyone waited for a moment for them to come back on, but that wasn't happening. We were told to keep the kids where they were (most of them were in the cafeteria) and waited. About 20 minutes after lunch had ended we were told to go to our classrooms and wait for the kids. When they arrived we moved everyone to classrooms with windows. So now I have a dozen juniors and seniors on the top floor (hot) of a building without power trying to make them do a worksheet. Right. I decide that, under the circumstances, I'd be doing well to just keep them fairly quiet until the power comes back. They can do the worksheet for homework since it's not due until tomorrow.

The period ends with no power. No one really knows what is going on. One teacher is dismissing her students to go to their next class so I follow suit. While my kids are walking down the dark hallway another teacher comes out of her classroom and tells them to go back to their previous class. Now there's 3 teachers (well, 2.5 since I'm there) in the hallway; one telling the kids to go to their next class, one telling them to go back to their previous class, and me without a clue. The teachers discuss (one of them almost heatedly) and find that the administration has told them different things. We let the kids go.

So now it's the last period of the day and there's still no power. I mostly succeed in keeping things to a dull roar just waiting for my watch to say it's time to go. Wouldn't you know it, 5 minutes before dismissal the power comes back on. The kids were a bit disappointed since they were hoping for no school tomorrow.

I blame a backhoe.