I have just suffered from some sort of lapse in consciousness in which my brain and body were replaced by some other, more refined, and less socially conscious being... During this lapse, this other person transported my body from the train to Banana Republic, using the rationalization of "you got out of work early because cheerleading was cancelled... you need to kill time before your second job!" and bought a stripey shirt on clearance for $13.99... Then, as if this creature had not exerted enough control over my life, it dragged me across the street to a warm and pleasantly lit coffee shop called "Starbucks" where it claimed "You can use their internet and their bathroom and not pay a dime!" but little did it know that I cannot resist the smell of chocolate and coffee combined and somehow I ended up buying a Vanilla Latte. The people there seemed irritated that I did not title my drink size appropriately and I didn't use their internet after all and the bathroom was pretty rank...
Suddenly, when back on the sidewalk, I snapped into consciousness again and then chastised myself for about 15 minutes on the evils of Coffee Empires and Sweat Shop Labor and I tried not to enjoy the latte [or the espresso brownie, but that was really hard to ignore]. Working in Chelsea is no joke. It's no wonder they produce so many yuppies over here.
I dressed very business-y today and prepared myself to inform my principal of two clear declarations:
1) If Melanie is not removed from my room/our school by the end of the week, I am calling either ACS or filing a grievance with the UFT.
2) I am not coming back next year, because I'm going back to school at Teachers College. Full time. And any work that I do will not be with children. At least not for a while.
Instead, I was a wussy-face and hemmed and hawed about the Melanie thing ["she'll be on a plane to Jamaica by April 18th" and "we transferred her but her parents refused" were the statements]. I'll return to the grievance threat if she's not gone when I get back from April break. Which is going to happen, I'm 99% sure of it.
The folks who do "School Report Cards" are coming to our school in the near future to "grade" us. It is not going to be pretty. I'd mention the site but I don't want any google action to lead them here...
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Unfortunately, the "report card" people are delusional. They gave my abhorrent school a favorable review (for the most part), which simply defies logic and/or observational skills. Nonetheless, have your classroom in order and the kids in line if they tell you that they'll be stopping into your classroom. They gave my best friend from work a glowing review of her classroom and she has been the P's darling ever since.
Oh, and as for not returning? Take me with you?
Whenever i get something from s'bucks i order a "small" instead of a "tall". It's my way of sticking it to the man (in this case a self-hating cashier who writes poetry and attends anti-wto protests in her spare time).
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