Uh oh! Were you able to have kids make phone calls in advance to "drum up" some business?

We've tried that. The teachers have called each parent. We've tried door prizes. We just don't have very good turn out.

It is worse in the Spring plus the weather is gorgeous outside today. That's not helping.

Ugh. I was at a MS once that had this trouble. We had kids schedule times with parents. The kids made the appointments. As it got down to

the wire (1 week before), kids were calling parents from school to set up a time THEN. Slow parents were embarrassed, but were there.

We rescheduled with parents who couldn't be there on those dates for the couple days before/after.

Fall attendance rates stayed solid at around 60%. Our Spring went from like 30% to 89% attendance.

I followed that general model at TPLC, only we did it Spring and Fall and we always shot for 100%. I think missed it 2x in 5yrs.

awesome. I might suggest another shot at it next year and see how it goes.

Can you get some work done with the time?

acoleman: Absolutely! I do love that aspect of it. Got the Royals BB game audio going, plurking occasionally and working!

Good use of time!

I knew I shouldn't go down into the workroom to get water. I had to get a cookie...not on my diet!

tgentry: Just walk around a bit to burn off that 100 cookie!

GingerTPLC: Think I might do that. I do have time to burn.

Just had a parent come in and thank me for helping her son and keeping my curriculum from being outdated. I'

I've had her son all 3 years of his hs career so far and she said that he signed up for 2 more classes next year.