Just to prove that we were actually working on a national holiday - that white spot at the top is the pile of essays we were grading.
It is interesting that the normal business world can conduct business meetings on the golf course or at a bar, but teachers can't be trusted to hold a meeting in a coffee shop, because they might actually talk about something off topic if there isn't an administrator breathing down their necks.
Yes, we drank non-alcoholic beverages and consumed pasteries. All, while discussing essay rubrics and determining how much crappy handwriting should/may affect the grading procedure. My personal feeling is that we do no favors to our students in accepting papers that look like they were written by a kindergartner, especially since most aspire to jobs that still use hand written job applications. That, however, is a point for another day.
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