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I remember when I was in high school, summer school was a dirty word (OK, it’s two words and it really wasn’t dirty…).  It probably meant you didn’t do your job during the year so you had to give up your precious time off to catch up.  Now as a college instructor, I want to go to summer school.  It means a few extra dollars and that can’t do anything but help with the cost of energy soaring and other bills that need to be paid.  My status is still up in the air as there needs to be at least 20 learners in the class before a full time faculty member can teach the class.  There are currently 17 in the class but the 20 being a hard and fast rule means it currently is a no go for me and I’m not holding my breath (it’s over two weeks before class starts I’d be way past blue if I held my breath!). 

Leaving the personal impact of summer school to the professional one.  I found last summer that the quality of community college summer school learners tends to be slightly better than those in regular semesters.  Why?  Well, the logical answer can be developed from my above comment, they wanna be there! As a speech teacher I also find some learners come to their home institution to take the dreaded public speaking class.  So we get learners from a variety of colleges and universities which makes for a nice mix.

So I am sitting on pins and needles (now that’s a pain in the you know what!!) waiting to find out if enough students will enroll in the class to see if it’s a go.  I’ll keep you posted.