Up The Down Staircase

* * *

INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION

FROM: 508

TO: 304

You're warm: special slow classes. The new teachers are stuck with the toughest assignments. Don't despair—by the time you get to be my age, you'll earn the choicest seniors.

I see by your program you're a 'floater'—that means you travel from room to room. Insist on a desk drawer of your own in each room where you teach; if not, get a strong-armed boy to lug your things.

You have Hall Patrol—that's a cinch now that we have Aides to help with the non-teaching assignments. It means walking up and down the corridors and stopping kids without passes. It's a higher-class job than Cafeteria Duty, but carries less prestige than the Book Room or Staircase Patrol. All of us have one such 'building assignment' a day, besides five teaching classes, a homeroom, and one 'unassigned' (don't ever dare to call it 'free') period. Those who play their cards right are relieved of homeroom, or even a teaching class, by becoming Lateness Coordinators or Program Integrators or Vocational Counselors or some such thing. We also have a lunch period. Yours, I see, is at the end of the third period, which means we can eat together on Wednesdays. Your gastric juices must start to flow at 10:17 A.M. It's a challenge.

Bea

3. From Miss Barrett’s Letterbox

PROGRAM FOR TODAY'S HOMEROOM PERIOD

(CHECK OFF EACH ITEM BEFORE LEAVING BUILDING TODAY)

_ MAKE OUT DELANEY CARDS AND SEATING PLAN

_ TAKE ATTENDANCE

_ FILL OUT ATTENDANCE SHEETS

_ SEND OUT ABSENTEE CARDS

_ MAKE OUT TRANSCRIPTS FOR TRANSFERS

_ MAKE OUT 3 SETS OF STUDENTS' PROGRAM CARDS (YELLOW) FROM MASTER PROGRAM CARD (BLUE), ALPHABETIZE AND SEND TO 201

_ MAKE OUT 5 COPIES OF TEACHER'S PROGRAM CARD (WHITE) AND SEND TO 211

_ SIGN TRANSPORTATION CARDS

_ REQUISITION SUPPLIES

_ ASSIGN LOCKERS AND SEND NAMES AND NUMBERS TO 201

_ FILL OUT AGE-LEVEL REPORTS

_ ANNOUNCE AND POST ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE AND ASSIGN ROWS IN AUDITORIUM

_ ANNOUNCE AND POST FIRE, SHELTER AND DISPERSAL DRILLS REGULATIONS

_ CHECK LAST TERM BOOK AND DENTAL BLACKLISTS

_ CHECK LIBRARY BLACKLIST

_ FILL OUT CONDITION OF ROOM REPORT

_ ELECT CLASS OFFICERS

_ URGE JOINING G.O. AND BEGIN COLLECTING MONEY

_ APPOINT ROOM DECORATIONS MONITOR AND BEGIN DECORATING ROOM

_ SALUTE FLAG (ONLY FOR NON-ASSEMBLY OR Y2 SECTIONS)

_ POINT OUT THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF HOMEROOM: LITERALLY, A ROOM THAT IS A HOME, WHERE STUDENTS WILL FIND A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE AND GUIDANCE TEACHERS WITH EXTRA TIME ARE TO REPORT TO THE OFFICE TO ASSIST WITH ACTIVITIES WHICH DEMAND ATTENTION.

* * *

CALVIN COOLIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

MAXWELL E. CLARKE, PRINCIPAL

JAMES J. MCHABE, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

CIRCULAR # 1A

TOPIC: ORGANIZATION

PLEASE KEEP ALL CIRCULARS ON FILE, IN THEIR ORDER DILIGENCE, ACCURACY AND PROMPTNESS ARE ESSENTIAL IN CARRYING OUT ALL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO PROCEDURES.

PROGRAM FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

LONG HOMEROOM PERIOD (SEE CIRCULAR #H16) SHORT SUBJECT CLASS PERIODS (SEE CIRCULAR #7C, SECTION 4) ASSEMBLY BELL SCHEDULE (SEE ASSEMBLY CIRCULAR #3D, PAR. 5 & 6) PUPILS ARE TO REPORT BACK TO THEIR HOMEROOMS TO BE CHECKED OFF AT 2:56. DISMISSAL BELL WILL RING AT 3:05 SHARP. THIS, HOWEVER, IS UNCERTAIN.

* * *

TO: ALL ENGLISH TEACHERS

PLEASE SEND TO THE ENGLISH OFFICE BEFORE 3 TODAY YOUR REGISTERS IN ALL SUBJECT CLASSES IN ORDER TO ENABLE US TO EQUALIZE THE TEACHER-LOAD AND ACHIEVE A. GOAL OF 33 STUDENTS PER CLASS.

SAMUEL BESTER

CHAIRMAN, LANGUAGE ARTS DEPT.

* * *

FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST.

TO: ALL TEACHERS

RE: REQUISITION OF SUPPLIES

PLEASE ANTICIPATE YOUR NEEDS AND REQUEST SUPPLIES BEFORE THEY ARE NEEDED. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE EXCESSIVE DEMANDS.

TO PREVENT NON-AUTHENTICITY OF SIGNATURES, PLEASE SIGN YOUR FULL NAME IN INK ON YOUR REQUISITION SLIP.

IF YOU WISH TO DECORATE YOUR ROOM WITH POSTERS, WE HAVE A FEW LEFT:

BLOCK LETTERS, BLUE ON WHITE:

'KNOWLEDGE IS POWER'

YELLOW, ON GREEN BACKGROUND:

'TRUTH IS BEAUTY'

ALSO SOME TRAVEL POSTERS IN BROWN AND TAN OF SWISS ALPS, SLIGHTLY TORN BUT STILL USABLE.