My Sunday School room is set up with two rows of tables facing the front and a table along the side. For reasons I still don't understand, there is a group of boys who love the side table. As soon as first service ends, they rush into the room and toss their Bible's on the table to save their spot, then run off the play or whatever until it's time for the class to start. (First service ends at around 10:30 and Sunday School starts at 11:00.)
I have told them that if they're not back in time for Sunday School to start, I'll move their Bibles and let someone else sit there. I have on other occasions threatened to mix up the boys and girls if they don't behave.
Totally unrelated to the children: I am trying to get the teachers to understand that 10 minutes early is on time. We need to be in the classroom to greet the children and be ready to teach. Because I need to keep an eye on everything, I get to the class early to get ready and then go and check on the other rooms and deal with other issues, so I count on my helpers to be there to make sure the children are settled if I don't get back until closer to start time. I tell them often enough that 10 minutes early is on time.
I've noticed the boys getting there earlier in the past couple weeks; yesterday, they were talking outside the door and when they saw me coming down the hall, they shot into the room and were seated by the time I got there.
One boy's sister told me what is going on. While my teachers are still sometimes late, the boys have taken "10 minutes early is on time" to mean that they have to be in the room 10 minutes early or I'll probably make them sit with the girls.
I'm trying to decide whether to tell them that they don't have to be there quite so early, or enjoy having most of the students settled and ready to go when I get back!
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