I look down at a rug filled with index card. Index cards of different colors, with different names and symbols written on them. In four rows, in two sections (boys and girls). It’s one of the first signs that the end of the school year is approaching. It is time for putting together the perfect classes for next year.
“X can’t be with Y.”
“Z gets support.”
“A and B would get along really well, they should be put in the same class.”
“C and E can push each other outside the box.”
“X can’t be with Y.”
These are the conversations that circled my team mates and I during our faculty meeting today. These are the conversations that are still circling my head as I write this post.
Will the circle stop?! I know it will, it always does. But for now…the circle must continue until those” perfect” classes are created.
Standing Tall 
What a puzzle. You captured the complexity and irony. I still think a bingo ball machine may be the answer!
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Agreed! Throw all the cards in the air and where they land they land.
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Ack, we are doing this exact thing right now. You captured it beautifully!
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I remember these conversations from my days teaching elementary. It is a computerized process in middle school.
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A familiar experience. If only parents knew how much time we put into the combinations…
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Placement conversations can spiral out of control as we try to create “perfect” classes. It is so hard to create a class with names on a card – we should have “new class play dates” and test out the dynamics??!!
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You all do such thoughtful work!
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