Block Scheduling "Things I Wrote Elsewhere"

I'm stealing John Fleck's great blogpost title idea as a way to explain away the extreme dearth of things emanating from 'round these parts in recent days/weeks. When you spend most of your non-recreational time pounding out amazingly banal, arcane stuff like:

• "Math & LA/Lit teachers will teach three main classes, and with supposedly 27 kids per class, and 81 kids total;
• SS, Science and Electives teachers will teach six main classes, and with the same 27 kids per class that's roughly 162 students;
  
• The number of additional staff & rooms required to get Math/LA teachers down to 81 kids per teacher is patently untenable
• Compared with the current schedule (and discounting the effects of the rather uncertain "skinny" period for Tier II interventions, etc.), the proposed schedule reduces student contact time for SS/Science/Electives teachers by a little over 45 minutes per week (240 minutes v. 196 minutes);
  
• Math student contact time (again, not including the "skinny" period which is primarily full of Tier II reading/Math and a bunch of singleton electives) would increase from current levels by roughly 110 minutes per week, not even including the Tier II intervention time;
  
• Interestingly enough, LA/Lit student contact time for non-Tier II intervention students is reduced by around 130 minutes per week in the proposed schedule."

In other, more comprehensible words, the block scheduling brouhaha at my school is taking up important time that could be spent writing silly things about snow, Robert Lucero and thrown shoes.

I highly doubt these missing silly blogposts are missed, just as I doubt poorly constructed bullets like "The number of additional staff & rooms required to get Math/LA teachers down to 81 kids per teacher is patently untenable" will have any impact whatsoever regarding the schedule at my school next year.

Funny. Blogposts and school-wide emails seem to have just about the same level of impact/importance. Hmmm...