More Traditions???

Here at Converse there are already many traditions in place.  There are probably some that I don't even know about yet.  I enjoy Converse's many traditions probably because my family has a ton of traditions...from "Santa" visiting my grandomother's on Christmas morning (generally the youngest adult male in the family, which right now is my fiancee Brandon(: ), to celebrating Passover, to playing Bible trivia on Christmas Eve (guys vs. girls of course).  I LOVE traditions!!!  I found it really difficult to think of a new tradition to have here at Converse.

In order to help me think of a new tradition for Converse, I thought about traditions that we had at our high school.  We did not have that many "traditions," but there were many events that frequently occured.  My favorite, was our collaborative planning on the first Wednesday of every month.  All of the teachers in each department would "collaborate" for half of the school day and the students would come into school late that day.  I know that in college, we do not have the time to take a day off every month, but some occasional breaks besides holidays would be nice.  I was trying to figure out something that does not occur every month so that we would not have as much time off.  I came up with cancelling classes on the 31st of every month.  This would only happen 4 times during our school year.  If the 31st fell on the weekend, classes would be cancelled on either Friday or Monday.

I really miss all of the in-service and collaborative planning days that we had in high school because they would break up the time in between actual holidays (Thanksgiving, Spring Break etc.).  Sometimes, we would go for over a month without having a five day school week...which was pretty awesome.

I do understand that we cannot have the luxury of taking a lot of holidays, but a few more would be great just to have a break once in a while.