Tutoring

A couple weeks ago the Academic Dean at my new school asked me if I would be interested in doing the scheduling for the after-school tutoring program. This is the first time the district has had anything like this - mandatory tutoring for kids who fail 2 or more core courses. The pay wasn't great, but I said yes - apparently I have left the impression that I'm organized, but I'm not sure how that rumor got around. It's not true - it just looks that way.
Anyway, the nuts and bolts of how the program would actually work, and who would be doing the actual tutoring, and how many students we would actually have, were not well thought out before the program was put on the ground. there is nothing in writing - its all a seat-of-the-pants sort of thing right now. And to top it off, the dean was called out of town on personal business, and it all dropped into one of the Assistant Principal's lap. Fortunately, he is much more organized than me, and also much smarter and better with people. He has helped get the program off to a good start (well, we start Monday, but its looking pretty good). We still need a couple more teachers - there were a lot of kids who failed junior English, but all in all I think it will go well.
We have 542 slots for tutoring - kids that failed at least 2 core classes (math, science, English, and social studies) have to go, and many students failed more than 2 core classes. Probably 240 students out of 1800 will start 3 weeks of tutoring on Monday. If they can get their grade up then they'll be released after 3 weeks; if not, then they'll continue for the remainder of the 6 weeks.
Hopefully, they or their parents will work harder to pass next 6 weeks, and the numbers will drop. It will be and interesting experiment.