Thursday, September 2, 2010
paper work and red tape
Today I found a load of paper work that I had entirely forgotten. It was supposed to be back at the Curriculum Council four weeks ago - ooer. The main gist of several pages per student was that I had to check if they were background speakers of French. There was a simple tick box with a list of my students on it but in addition each student had to write down on every single line where they had been for each year of their lives, what were their main languages spoken and the name of each school. The instructions were so complicated. For each country there was a different set of scores with Australia being 0, Mauritius, 2, France 4 etc. Then you had to add up all the columns and then declare whether or not you would say that each student was a native speaker or not. I got so mad having to enter columns of zeroes that in the end I gave up. They will be mad with me for getting the forms in late so they can just be doubly mad that the noughts are missing too. I have just wasted an hour of my life and the students lives too when we could have been doing something useful. I think unecessary paperwork is my pet peeve, along with people who wave their knives and forks in the air. Wonder what are other people's pet peeves are?
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