that's my alter ego. pet peeves are messiness, bad driving, and rudeness in general.
In this week's episode, Ms. Megatron surfaced yet again to deal with the recurring mess made by grade 11 students in her room. After daily requests to the teacher in charge, as well as gentle admonitions to known members of said pigsty class, I was forced to call on Megatron to gently write a letter (GASP) to the teacher in charge to request that the class be put to rights.
Megatron suggested that I retaliate in other passive aggressive ways such as having my grade 9s leave the class in total disarray so that the 11s might get the picture. But, I dont feel that anyone learns anything from that. In fact that would be making a bad thing worse because as far as my sweet, innocent 9s know, the room is always left as neat as they made it. Not so. Not so.
Megatron rose with bile and vengeance when I opened the door to the room at 2pm (end of the school day) to put some stuff on my desk. I should have taken a picture. Megatron was fully justified in making her appearance.
My calendar was on the floor - knocked off my desk, lying forlorn, pages askew. A folder with sheets ready for the next day was hanging precariously off the filing cabinet, on the verge of falling and making a mess of a 100 or so neatly stacked pages. A borrowed dictionary was splayed sadly across a desk, a vast distance from the bookshelf from whence it came.
Desks, mercifully, were in the right places. But the chairs... The chairs were scatter in haphazard arrangements, some were grouped together far away from the desks to which they belonged.
In three words:
It made my head hurt. Especially when I thought of the fact that I had held a student back earlier to make sure the room was in ship shape form.
Let us see how this missive from Megatron is received. I imagine I will be painted as the villain in this scenario. It will be made to seem as if I am the tyrant who insists on order over free-spiritedness; instead of the obvious call to personal responsibility and role-modelling for the younger students. The room should be returned to the state in which it was found OR BETTER. It takes less than a minute. I have a feeling I was already painted as a tyrant after the whole chocolate desk fiasco that got this week off to a flying start.
Megatr... I cannot be everywhere. And I refuse to clean up the mess left by other able-bodied people.
Clean up your Crap!
It's Common Sense People!
1 comment:
Get a polariod, take a picture of the class how you left it and how it was when you returned. Make a montage and send it to the offending person/teacher. :)
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