Mid morning…urgent email from downtown. ‘The system shows that you are missing attendance days. Please fix this by 1pm’. I look at the clock. It’s 11:30am. There are no fewer than 40 students listed…students with random names, random levels, random dates. There is a neat chart included in the email with all the attendance codes I can use.
These are my choices: P-Present, in person, P-Async-Remote, P-Sync-Remote, A-Unexcused-Absent-In Person, A-Unexcused-Remote, A-Excused-Absent-Remote, A-Excused-Absent-In Person, A-Alt-Alternative Special, T-Tardy Excused Remote, T-Tardy Excused In Person, T-Unex-Unexcused Remote, T-Unex-Tardy In Person.
I look at the ceiling. If there were a gun held to my head, I would not have an answer to this mess.
I dig around for a bit, finding a different chart where I am informed all of this can be fixed. I click on it and wait. Nothing. What was to be clicked, is grey and…unclickable.
I send off a polite email informing the powers that be downtown that I am unable to change anything on the chart. Silence.
I send another polite email indicating that this is unlikely to happen today, and certainly not by 1pm. The chart remains grey and unclickable. Silence.
Much later, an email arrives from downtown thanking me for attending to this matter and for fixing the problem. Everything is now in order and corrected in the system.
I look up at the ceiling…
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