"Spring Break" classes

(posted by Paul Zilmer)

We had a break in the usual multi-week classes, midway through our Spring term. During this break we had two single-session classes, led by guest teachers.

One lesson learned is that people seem to like the IDEA of keeping classes going all the time, more than wanting to actually attend them!  We did not have a single "regular" student attend either class. (In fairness, we need to point out that illness apparently kept 3 of them home.)  We did, however, have some other people come to both classes. The first one drew a couple of first-time students, which was something we'd hoped for. The second one was attended by some members of the Bloomington meeting, along with 3 people who have been studying with some of our members, but hadn't attended BEC classes.

So, it seems to have been worth doing these classes. During our holiday break in the winter we also found that attendance dropped off quite a bit, but during that break we did have some of the regulars who wanted to stay involved. Taking a break occasionally is (we think) a good thing to do. We'll have to explore how we want to handle future breaks.