Victor/Victoria

Note: the title of this post references a movie. If you have not seen it, it's a good movie. I recommend it. 

Friday. The second day of school.

In teacher training, I learned that it is not a good idea to let students choose their seats. But, as someone whose last name starts with an A, I really dislike seating students alphabetically. I prefer a randomization method. 

Ms. S had the desks numbered. She also had index cards with the numbers on them. So, I shuffled the cards, and as the students entered the room, I drew a card and assigned them that seat. It was lovely.

A few students did move as they needed to be close to the front. This was to be expected. I'm sure there'll be other moves as the semester wears on. 

But, mostly they sat in the random seats I had randomly generated. 

One of the other starting class things I did was to have them make pull cards. (These are cards with their names on them that I can shuffle to call on them randomly.) 

As I went around to pick them up, I made sure to pronounce their names to make sure I was saying them right. This is when I noticed that two boys who have the same name sit next to each other. Deep sigh.

So, as I was picking up the cards one period, I looked down and noted the boy was named Victor. Nothing odd there. In the very next seat was Victoria. 

Um...

I think there are a few kinks in the randomization system. Sigh. 

(I kinda want to tell the kiddos about the movie, but I'm not sure it's terribly age appropriate. I mean, it's not bad, but there are a few adult themes that they're probably a bit young for. If you've seen the movie, you'll know what I mean.)