The Principal Chronicles continue ... This week was Chaparral's homecoming week and for us, that meant we got to walk in their homecoming parade. This year we upgraded our experience by having a really cool truck pull a big trailer packed full of our students. Not only did we look cool, the kids decorated the trailer with posters and they got to ride the whole way (and it's a long way).
If you have never been to the Chap Homecoming parade it's essentially just like Halloween. From every float, the students throw candy to those sitting in the crowd (although if you are sitting on the side you really need to be careful because some kids throw the heater instead of the change up). For our school, students rode in the trailer and the parents rode in the back of the truck and our teachers walked behind. I have to admit, this year the parade speed was a lot higher than it was last year. There were some times when we had to hit the gas just to keep up with the other schools floats. Overall it was a ton of fun and I got plenty of exercise walking and throwing candy (I have to admit, I only handed out candy to CTE families; I know what you are thinking, but we are a family, and we take care of our own).
Coming up in the future I am thinking of adding a different component to the Chronicles. I am going to attempt to add a short podcast interviewing our teachers to try and give our loyal readers a behind the scenes look at what we do here at CTE. It sounds like a really good idea in my head so we will see how it turns out. Look for it in the coming weeks.
That is it for this week, thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next week when the Principal Chronicles continue ...