Thursday: alarm

The classroom in which I teach has a keypad lock on it.  So usually we end up propping the door open because it is just easier.

A few weeks ago I noticed that the door wasn't always closing all the way...there is so much air blowing into the room that the door can't shut.  (Yes, it is crazy weather in the room.  Usually way too cold and I'm almost an ice cube at the end.)  I thought about saying something about it but didn't.

Someone else must have said something.  Today there was an alarm on the door...if it was open for about a minute it started beeping.  It was annoying that we couldn't leave the door open, but that's not really a huge deal.  The big deal was that the door still doesn't close automatically, so any time anyone went in or out of the room we tended to get an alarm.  It only takes a few people doing it in the middle of class to become really annoying.  The other annoying thing is that the alarm doesn't happen "right away", which is good, but after a minute the person that didn't get the door all the way closed is long gone.  So then someone else has to deal with it.

But I did get a big pile of free stickers today!  The boys were so excited.