Our town's HS principal

[Kinky Ramona]

...Is such a dick. To be expected, I guess, but one of the girls that was in the class that was supposed to be graduating last Friday was missing 4 hours of Saturday school credit and of course, since this new asscock came along, summer school's been eliminated, and she doesn't get to graduate at all. Because of 4 stinking hours.

Now that's not the issue, the biggest issue here is she was just going to finish up those hours during summer school at a different district, but her mother requested that she get to walk with her class and recieve a blank diploma, just to keep the whole symbolic idea of it, I suppose. Anyway, the principal told her flat out that he wasn't going to "break his back" to give her a proud moment if she wasn't willing to break her own back to get those hours. While I do agree she should've been at school more so she wouldn't have had Saturday school at all, she attended every Saturday school they offered to make up for missed hours and they didn't offer enough to fill what was necessary. Not only did he say that, he told her Shawnee didn't need to graduate anyway because since she was a convenience store clerk, she would never make anything of herself anyway.

He went as far as to tell the mom that he didn't give a shit about the students or whether they did well after high school, he just was going from school to school and spending two years in charge to clean up the damage that had been done. Not that it's a surprise, either...just sad that this town is so soap opera-esque and stupid. Doesn't that sound like some stupid ass movie? A high school principal moves in with the intentions of cleaning up a school on his way to take over the world or something? Damn...that's retarded.

Sorry...just needed a bit of a rant. I think it pissed me off the most because of his comment about her being a clerk...I'm about to go back to a convenience store in town and it's great to know that my HS principal thinks of me as a nobody because I'm going to be working my tail off at a convenience store so I can get out on my own and go to school (something that asshole sure as hell never helped with). Eh...shouldn't even consider him my principal, he was only there my senior year. I wish our old principal would come back...she was stupid, but it was happy times for SFHS when we had the Blueberry overseeing the joint. I feel the worst for the poor assistant principal...he's taking care of not only the high school, but the junior high, too, and the stupid real principals are getting paid to go out and play golf and ignore their duties...bah!

[Samhain]

Hi Manda, concentrate on the fact that you'll be away from this shortly, because you'll be graduating- yay
however what this girl has gone through has obvousily struck a cord with you, has it perhaps reminded you of people in authority that you feel have held you back recently?
its better in some ways that you start your career with good honest hard work, that way you prove to your future employers that you can be trusted and are reliable.
i think its good for the mental health to go out and work and whilest you won't be doing the job you start with for the rest of your life, it gives you time to think about what you do want to do.
mind you I haven't got a problem with any type of work, if all he doctors went on strike, sure it would be very worrying, however if you think about it if everyone who worked in a supermarket went on strike, and they had to be closed it would have a much bigger impact on all of us immediatly.
as a society we fail to recognise the importance that all jobs play in helping our community to run.
if you've ever lived in a community it soons becomes apparant when someone hasn't cleaned, but when in life do we apprecaite the value of people who clean our streets?
going back to what you where originally talking about, theres no such thing as 'king of the castle' everyone has to answer to somebody, what I'm saying is is that girl could take her cause to the higher school authorities.
now if you know for a fact that your priniciple made a negative statement about supermarket clerks, so could you take it to the school authorities, but I would be very careful about acting on anythings that you have heard someone else say he said, as thats hear say.
has your rant and my response helped any?
blessings
S

[ihmurria]

:( that's really lame

[Kinky Ramona]

Oh, I've already graduated...sorry that I didn't make that clearer. Which is why it's stupid that it riles me up so bad, lol. Not like I have to really deal with all the drama that goes down there, it's just sad because my brother is attending that school now. I only had to deal with McClellan one year, hopefully the guys "2 year and run" plan is still underway so he only has to deal with him one year (which he's already done, my baby brother's no longer a freshman! hehe). I just am angry that he's demeaning any job that any hardworking student of his has. Just because she sells coffee and cigarettes for a living right now does not mean she'll never apply herself or become anything great. Her mother has already written letters to everyone she could think possible.

The high school's full of corruption anyway, the valedictorian of the junior class (next year's graduating kids), put Ex-Lax in a batch of muffins and fed them to anyone and everyone she could at school and when the authorities of the school found out, they gave her a slap on the wrist and bent over backwards to keep that from leaking out because under state law, that's poisoning/attempted murder (you never know if someone's deathly allergic to it) and she should've been reported, immediately expelled, and then sent to trial under a juvenile court. One of the girls also in that class has been trying to talk to the superintendent about her disgust (she was one of the kids who ate a muffin, but thankfully didn't get ill), but they're so focused on rebuilding the school entrances that they're not even paying attention to the students' concerns and health. Ack, I'm glad my boyfriend and I decided we are not raising our kids here.