An alert of our own

So, reading the St. Catharines Standard and watching CHCH we witnessed the Blizzard Warning in effect for all of Southern Ontario. While we didn't get any snow, albeit an inch or so after school today, we did have an alert as well. A big, black wolf was seen about 75 m from school and directly in front of our teacherages. An alert means that all students MUST go on the bus and staff find rides home.



Last week we were driving to the store and I noticed that a vehicle coming my way was a student's father. As we got closer, I soon realized that it wasn't his dad driving, but just him. Definitely took me by surprise.



We have now finished our Midterms and Final Exams for two classes: Greg - Science, Claire - Visual Arts. Only 1 student, the same boy, failed both courses. The school is having him come in on weekends and catch up and improve his mark so he can pass. The school is paying us to do this on weekends, which is pretty nice. Since we usually are at the school on Saturday, it works out. We had a meeting with Julia and him and his attitude has changed. He is now working during classes and willing to put forth the effort. During the meeting Julia told him that if he continued and chose not to work hard he would end up failing high school, not getting his diploma and sitting on welfare his entire life. He then asked if he would end up like his dad. Man, it's a different world up here.



Found out this week that our fundraising total is at $17,100, with three cars already purchased. Pretty amazing that in a community the size of 800-1,000 people, that much money can be raised. Although disappointing it is from welfare/child tax cheques.



Either tomorrow or Friday the Grade 8/9s are having a rabbit soup fundraiser, which will apparently make a ton of money. We'll try to post pictures of it later.