More mayhem from the self-important administrator

[hauntmeister]

At 7:00 on Friday morning, the self-important administrator declared an assembly for 10th and 11th graders at 10:00. She sent out URGENT! email. I could see justifying a sudden assembly for something urgent. Like, "we're closing for a week because of swine flu", or "five people got shot yesterday and we need to come together as a school." But

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[hrafn]

So on top of all the other idiocy - she's berating students for NOT buying tickets at ALL? Is prom mandatory now or what??

[alaria_lyon]

And apparently she doesn't realize that she works in an inner city school where prom tickets are probably not the first thing on the list for economically strapped families.

[hauntmeister]

She also made an odd pitch for the $25 photograph package, billing it as not too expensive and a good variety of pictures. I'm wondering if she has some kickback arrangement with the photographer.

[hauntmeister]

Well, the wording was something like, "Okay, for those who aren't buying tickets....why not? What's the problem?" She probably didn't mean it to be berating, but it came across more like a demand.

Assorted answers, like "I don't have a ride", or "It costs too much", or "nobody I know is going." Entirely predictable from inner-city 10th and 11th graders.

Look

[ohmyqueen]

THis woman is nuts. Pure and simple. It's adult-onset something, and it's going to get worse. In five years she'll be a model for some weird character in a James Thurber short story.

Re: Look

[hauntmeister]

A particularly pernicious rumor is that, if she can't find a job as an administrator in another school, she's going to bump one of the "provisional" teachers at this school and reinvent herself as a humanities teacher.

I don't know if she can technically do it as far as union rules are concern, but I could certainly imagine her doing it.