Afternoon couch.

I survived the week at school. I get to work this morning and was told they needed me to go on the "World of Work" field trip. It was only a half day, but still I hate when crap is sprung on me. World of Work is a program (teachers select students to be in it) that pulls kids out of an elective twice a week to go over job/employment skills with them. They teach them how to fill out an application, make a resume, how to act in an interview, and other things like that. It's an outside agency contracted by the school board who does this. Then once or twice a month, they take them on a field trip to a local business for a tour. Before Thanksgiving we went to a hotel. Today we went to the police station. Next week (luckily they told me this time beforehand), we go to the fire station. The kids get to ask questions about what sort of schooling they need to apply for certain jobs at that place of business/field of employment. I personally think the program would be better suited for high school students, since they are at the point where they start considering what they want to do after they graduate, but I guess it's important to teach this stuff to middle school students as well. Unfortunately it is a program only offered in the middle schools. The teachers usually choose kids who have said they have no desire to goto college, or don't show potential for college, to show them that there are still a lot of possible jobs out there for them.