Vergil’s Coffee

Because I can.

And that is perhaps the long and short of it.

As it stands, my teaching schedule does not include Student Publications nor Beginning Journalism and that is a first since I’ve taken this position at Concord High School 13 years ago. The change also has me not in Room 138: a room I’ve occupied since it was built 12 years ago. I will no longer be responsible for the Journalism program at Concord High School and it’s a change that I requested–a change that has been in the works since first trimester of this year and so it has little to do with the current newspaper staff and more to do with some necessary changes in my life and my department.

I requested from my department chair (Livrone) and principal (Cunningham) that I teach sophomores again and that in order to do that I would give up my teaching and advising responsibilities of Newspaper and Journalism. My schedule for next year will still include the other classes that I have been assigned this year (English 12b, Biblical Literature, and yes, AP English Language and Composition) and then sections of English 10A, 10B and another English 10 class to be titled later.

The teacher that will be taking the Student Publications teaching and advising responsibilities along with the Beginning Journalism class is Ms. Lauren Martin. We will probably be swapping rooms as we swap teaching assignments.

I’ll be adding more to this post tomorrow, but for now I thought it was time that you know.