Just Say No…

The other day, we were in curriculum planning committee meetings when I learned a new trick to add to my bag. It is serious genius. I think it is the sheer simplicity of it all that really blows my mind…like, how did I not think of this before??

So we’re in this meeting working on re-working the ENTIRE social studies curriculum. It’s a TON of work, but very exciting work. The classroom teachers dive right in and get to work. Out of the classroom teachers are sitting around and have just about perfected that “we’re-definitely-not-busy-but-in-reality-are-completely-useless-so-don’t-bother-us” look.

That’s not fair. There are a few (the proud, the brave) who actually bust their behinds. So to you, fine friends, I am sorry, but you are lumped in with a bunch of dead weight.

The chair of our committee turns and asks one of the do-nothings to please make a copy of a specific document so we can all look it over and continue. Mind you, we are mandated to be in this meeting until 3:00. It is 1:35 (we had a half day…).

She looks right at the committee chair and says, “no.”

Just “no.”

That’s it, no explanation.

WHY HAVEN’T I THOUGHT OF THAT???

The committee chair was so shocked that she just turned and asked a teacher, who had to leave her work, to go do it while this do-nothing (who frankly doesn’t even deserve a nick name… I refuse to waste my mental energy thinking of something quirky and humorous for this dope) sat and continued to stare blankly.

The saddest part is that she has been in the system for so long, that she makes more than all of us combined.

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