Pet Peeve Alert

12 January 2009 @ 17:26 | Posted in » Education

As a public school teacher, one needs to practice patience and flexibility. Those are not inherited tools in my skillset so I have had to learn them along the way. As such, when through a series of comical situations it was dropped on me today to pick up another reading group to carve out more time for students in another classroom at the detriment of mine, I didn’t even flinch.

As the it so happens, this group is 125 pages into a 368-page book that I have never read. Still, no cause for alarm as I can handle that.

What absolutely astounds me is that this group is reading book 12 of a 13-book series and they have read but one other. That means they do not have the background of the series on which to draw. And neither do I.

The Lemony Snicket books are fun. I read four or five of them a couple years ago. Now I have to jump eight books to catch up with this group. This group hasn’t even read as much of the series as I have. Sigh . . .

I really do not like reading out of order; it’s akin to reading chapters out of order.

Oh well, flexible and patient me will be cuddling up with The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12) tonight. FWIW, I asked the students what penultimate means. They didn’t know . . .