1st Day of School--Simmons High

Today was the first day of school. I made it! Hopefully things will get easier now. The students behaved well, and overall it was a satisfactory day. Since I have heard many stories about my school, I was prepared for pretty much anything. Things were a bit chaotic (we were in homeroom most of the day), but that was expected. My only real problem is the student-teacher ratio in classes. When we got our rosters at the end of the day, I had three 30+ classes (31, 32, and 35 students listed). But I guess that's normal at my school. (Side note--I feel sorry for Joel because one of his classes had 48 on roll). Anyway, we hope to get these issues somewhat resolved, but I'm not expecting drastic changes.
Throughout the past few days of training, I've been surprised that most of my requests for materials were met quickly. I'm still waiting on more desks ( I have 22...everybody else stands up). Well, there's more to talk about but I'll have to do it later because lesson plans are due tomorrow.