Small Details Matter

Do small details matter? In education they should. Ok, I admit, I do tend these days to rush to school in the mornings, stop at Starbucks to grab coffee, cut Pinto off on Tweedy and barely make it to sing in. Mind you, not once has an administrator had to open the door to my waiting students. I always seem to make it on time to greet them at the door. Now why would anyone want to make an issue over a few minutes + or - when we sign the attendance card in the morning? Who cares over such small trivia? Well, when it starts impacting the number of tardies mentioned on your Evaluation Stull (yes, those little red dots are counted and end up on your stull as tardies) it should start to matter big time.

Article IX, 3.1 of the contract states that site obligations on a traditional 180 calendar schedule like ours start 7 minutes before classes start and end 6 minutes after they end. According to my calculations this is 7:38 AM for us. So why are sign in ledgers pulled at 7:35...or 7:36...or 7:37...or ever later? They should be pulled at 7:38 period! And then a time-stamped ledger should be kept for all (yes, ALL) that arrive thereafter. No confusions! No inconsistencies! No problems! Let's get it right. Small details do matter.