Promotion in word
But perhaps not in fact.
The merger of English and Humanities, which I reported in my previous post, isn’t going to happen, but Dmitry is allegedly going to be deputy Führer instead.
Why? No other Führer has ever sat there saying, “Oh, I need a deputy.” This makes Vlad look lazy as he probably unloads all the trivial stuff onto Dmitry, and possibly incompetent if he can’t cope with the same job his predecessors have been doing.
I suspect the post will largely be nominal. I don’t know, for example, whether deputy Führer is even a real job within the hierarchy. I don’t know whether Dmitry will get a pay increase. (He shouldn’t; another senior colleague is refusing to take on extra responsibilities unless he get paid more, which is apparently not going to happen.)
The idea that we all have individual classrooms is still live, but like me, Sarasvati isn’t keen on the idea and is hoping that it can be killed off. I don’t know quite what might’ve been running through Vlad’s head when he thought this up. Is this part of some devious plan (divide and conquer) or was this the Nick Effect (one person complains about something and everything is changed to suit them)? Or could it be a combination of both? (E.g. Dmitry wanting to avoid Ms. Giggles Mk. II in the future.)
Is the notion of personal classrooms yet another instance of the tiresome and unnecessary Americanisation of our lives? We’re an A-level/IB centre, not an AP one.
I’ve also just had another unpleasant thought about this. What happens between classes? Normally, I briefly retreat to the office to escape. The last thing I want is my personal space being occupied by a bunch of immature, noisy, rubbish-spreading children when I might need some peace and quiet. I could try kicking them out for ten minutes.
Actually, that leads me to another thought. At the start of this year, it was proposed that a double lesson meant a double lesson with no break in the middle, but I hated the idea because it caused lessons to drag, and it didn’t survive very long. Is the individual classroom yet another attempt to impose this idea on us?
I hope that at some stage in the future I’ll be able to report the demise of this idea.
I’ve also just had another unpleasant thought about this. What happens between classes? Normally, I briefly retreat to the office to escape. The last thing I want is my personal space being occupied by a bunch of immature, noisy, rubbish-spreading children when I might need some peace and quiet. I could try kicking them out for ten minutes.
Actually, that leads me to another thought. At the start of this year, it was proposed that a double lesson meant a double lesson with no break in the middle, but I hated the idea because it caused lessons to drag, and it didn’t survive very long. Is the individual classroom yet another attempt to impose this idea on us?
I hope that at some stage in the future I’ll be able to report the demise of this idea.
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