Oh Where Has The Summer Gone

Well as the fall arrives and our children scurry back to school lets look into what madness that emanates from the Concrete Palace (School Board Central Office).

As usual the edicts passed down make absolutely no sense and make one wonder if psychiatric drugs are being dispensed in candy dishes throughout the building. Or has aerial spraying of Prozac been approved. Either way the ridiculous mandates show that the School Board is one brick short of a full load. To see the board members nod their collective bobble heads to the drivel that comes out of the Divas that appear to run the asylum without a single question makes one wonder. Should candidates for the school board be required to pass minimal tests to see if the gray matter between their ears has any electrical activity?

In my absence (gotta take a break from the insanity….) I wondered if some sense of stability had come to the school district. Not a chance. Here is a sampling of the ridiculous “policies” recently enacted:
1) Students at GW are exempt from exams if they do not miss 7 classes. Hmmm let me see this is really preparing them for college life. When questioned about it Sue Davis sticks to her “site based decision” monologue. Since when is grading and such policies a site based decision? I thought there was a superintendent in this district or at least a reasonable facsimile of one but I guess not. The fact is such a decision at the level of an inexperienced principal is ridiculous. This is not preparing them for college and doing the students no favor. But then again when does the board ever do anything for the students?
2) Trying to pass a policy to have all students and teachers have lunch at the high school at the same time. This is to stupid to even try to address. Can anyone in that school count? Do they know the capacity of the cafeteria? Do they know what would happen if students were given an hour for lunch. Can you say supervision nightmare! Man who even thinks these things up…………
3) Filling buses to only a ¼ tank to save gas. Oh god what physics professor thought this thing up! Defies logic, sensibility, and the basic laws of physics.
4) Colored mulch stacked up for three months in the maintenance yard and finally having bus drivers spread it. No comment here…..just to dumb to even talk about.
5) Giving first graders A, B, C, D, and F grades. Ok what Dr. Spock reject came up with this one? No one owning up? I wouldn’t think so…….. Defies ALL established research.

Well now’s you chance for all teachers and employees to get even. Just e-mail the most ridiculous policy the administration has passed on to you to savetheschools2@aol.com.
The best will be printed (anonymously of course).

I’m back on tract and ready to write. So much mismanagement….so little time. Write soon the pen is hot!