Paper Politics

It's weird to be working within a school district where resources are so limited. I remember at Metro Parks how I would get so irritated when we would waste boxes of paper on stupid promotional stuff. A lot of the paper would never even make it to public before we would recycle it.

I finished my first week of school. The last two days I was working with my mentor teacher to set up our classroom. We were given exactly two packages of paper that needed to last until the end of summer school. We literally divided out the paper among our classes. Every piece of paper was accounted for. In one way it made me SAD to think that there is so much waste in city and state government yet here we are scrambling to find enough paper so that our students can journal everyday, and simultaneously HAPPY to see us stretch our resources and save some trees. It was also inspiring to meet teachers who volunteer to teach summer school and invest so much time and money to the cause. This summer is going to be awesome!

Pic: Flat Top, Anchorage, AK