Hays Travelogue

In the wake of the senior pranks, the administration laid out these consequences. 19 seniors will not receive their diplomas unless they complete a number of hours of community service before June 15. 5 of these seniors, because of their greater role in the misbehavior, will not be allowed to participate at all in the [...]

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Not only do I work in a country in which the 9th grade history books were banned by the Ministry of Education, but now I can say that I work in a school in which the principal walked into a classroom and told a teacher to stop showing a video, entitled Promises, about peace.

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90 - Grading Papers
Originally uploaded by tamra hays.

This photo is on my flickr Project 365. It goes pretty well with Mike’s post (below), My Classes.

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The school we teach at, ostensibly international, is actually 98% rich Egyptian kids. The smart ones are very smart indeed; the others are mine. The smart ones take International Baccalaureate classes, which is what happens when the British do AP. The rest get what is laughingly called an American diploma. [...]

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Last week, teachers discovered that our access to many internet sites at school had been curtailed. Poetryfoundation.org was classified as ‘entertainment.’ Google docs and spreadsheets were now ‘personal storage.’ Hotmail was reclassified as some other forbidden zone; I don’t remember what it was. Once the dust settled, some things had been reinstated and others had [...]

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