You'll do it if I tell you that you have to.

You will if I say so.

What a warm and encouraging way to build teams and foster participation.

I am the boss and I say so.

Some people should not be given power because it goes to their heads.

Lessons of ineffective administrators #1

(concept stolen from The Math Crumudgeon, who is more than welcome to come steal my administratos in retaliation)

Hey, Les!

You tell us in meetings that we are to get the kids out of the hall, into class on time and in their seats eager to learn.

So I wrote Little Johnny up for excessive tardies (after I called his parents), disrupting other classes of mine by walking in (when he was supposed to be elsewhere, which I also verified), and having his cell phone out all the time. I mentioned that Little Johnny was disrupting other students' learning. I did five (count them. Five) write ups.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for finally calling him into your office to talk to him. Yes, sending an 18 year old to ISS to contemplate the error of his ways would damage his psyche, so I understand the need to talk with him.

I want you to know how much I appreciated his coming into another of my classes to apologize to me. With a smirk. Yes, I can tell that problems has gone away.

Pride goeth before the fall

Les Nessman, one of our APs, is adept at taking a problem and fanning it into a catastrophe, When presented with a problem from a parent or a student (and we know the students never lie) Les is quick to tell the parent/student that the teacher was wrong (before ever talking to the teacher)or to tell the teacher, in front of the parent "I cannot support you when you do that."

Thanks.

I hated working for the Hulk because I hate being yelled at.

I hate working with Les Nessman more.

I made the mistake last week of being proud of something I had done to benefit the students. I robbed Les of the opportunity to claim credit for it. (Yes, that was deliberate on my part - although I did claim in wide eyed innocence that I was just so excited that it had worked).

Trust me, pay back was a bitch.

100 more days of working with him. And I have a huge bank of personal days. I feel an extended and recurring case of the vapors coming on.

I think it is time to move on because I cannot wait for LN to be found out. He is either after the principal's job (and is trying to make him look incompetent) or he is the principal's minion whose task is to encourage people to leave. I think I am an asset (I have spoken before of being a mule here and here and the importance of have a team with some divas and some mules) but that is probably my pride speaking.

Lame

Les Nessman refuses to pronounce my name correctly. He so totally over-pronounces it that it has to be a deliberate slight.

Just grow up, Les.

Had a meeting after school - six times he called on me - and mispronounced it everytime.

Thoughts

**sigh** Les is more.

Are you sensing a theme?

Don't tell me it is raining when we all know what it is.

Hey, Les: don't tell me to use the school website because all the parts work - that you have files loaded on your website when in actuality you don't because that function doesn't work.

That is why my school website merely points people to one that really works.

Don't super enunciate my name because you mispronounced it and I corrected you.

When you use the sentence "They had a real resilience to using this program" when you mean to say "They had a real reluctance to using this program". "Beyond he and I" . . . you're kidding, right?

And guns do not hold "aminition".

But most of all, if anyone cared enough to correct you, you would find that praising some people's grades is not the smartest thing ever. Some people give easy grades and haven't taught anyone anything.

But you are not able to see the big picture - and I am not willing to help.

You think the numbers tell the truth? Not when you are comparing apples and oranges.