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Food and Drink

Lately, our room has been looking more like a cafeteria than a classroom; food and drink items are being left all over the room. It’s like a treasure hunt when I do mine final class inspection at closing. I was disturbed last night when I found a large drink next to the classroom projector; the other day it was a drink and food on a napkin next to the printer, sometimes it’s cups of liquid that I can barely reach. This doesn’t work for me, our equipment is just too expensive to risk damage.

If you are going to bring snacks and drinks into the classroom, they must remain on the counter area near the microwave; not all over the counter, just in the area nearest to the microwave. Because we are conducting orientation more often, I want to keep the table clear except at the actual break time.

If you eat or drink at the counter or table, please wipe up your mess. Crumbs, spilled coffee and soda, and other food and drink leftovers are really unsanitary when left to mold in our classroom.

Food needs to remain in containers, leaving a half eaten cookie or apple on the bare table is not sanitary. Containers, food items, newspapers, and other items need to be taken home or thrown away at the end of the day; we do not have adequate storage space to accommodate leaving things in the classroom.

If you use the microwave, wipe it down after each use. No cooking smelly foods; the smell of fish is offensive to some and if you make microwave popcorn you should bring enough for the entire class.

If we are going to continue to have potlucks then we need to have a “clean-up” crew for each potluck. The same people end up cleaning up the room most of the time or food just gets left on the table for me to toss and clean-up. Counters aren’t wiped down, trash is overflowing, and the carpet is thrashed. Tables, counters, and other areas need to be wiped down and cleaned up at 5:00 p.m.

Help Signs and Classroom Management

With the class enrollment increasing it is important to remind everyone to use their help signs ALWAYS. If you need help, a form signed, a CD scanned, or to chat with me, place your sign on your monitor. Please do not wave the sign at me to get my attention, you aren’t aware of other help signs that may be up or if I am working on attendance or another student’s problem. With more students in class, this is very important to me.

Break times will be at 2:00-2:20 p.m. for the 12:15-4:15 p.m. class and at 4:00-4:15 for the students attending six hours per day. If you are attending six hours per day, please keep your voices down at the 4:00 p.m. break for students finishing class and students starting the 4:15 p.m. class. Class fun stuff should be handled at the 2:00 p.m. break; yesterday the lights were turned out when I was in the middle of helping a student…not good. Also, the 2:00 p.m. break is my break too; it’s my time to eat a sandwich or just have a little quiet time; please respect that.

Class starts at 12:15 p.m., not 12:30, 12:45, or 1:00. When you come to class late every day you have lost the class hours. If you are thirty minutes late every day that is 2.5 hours lost in a week, 10 hours in a month, and 22.5 hours in a nine-week session. Yikes! That’s is a lot of time lost.

If you sign up for the six-hour session and you are habitually late you will be dropped from the six-hour program and enrolled in the four-hour session. If you’re still late to class and not attending the full four hours you will have to enroll in the two-hour class. We are funded based on your attendence, if you’re not here we don’t receive funding.

Thank you for your effort and cooperation!