- Interrupt my class with an unscheduled fire drill
- Send out a last-minute email explaining why half my kids will miss the test because of a field trip to go see a movie
- Cut off the last two hours of the day for an “emergency class meeting” where you talk about how important it is to order a class ring from Jostens
- Make sure not to fix the computers in the computer lab so that my awesome online assignment doesn’t work
- Excuse 1600 kids from being tardy because one bus showed up 11 seconds late
- Don’t give me enough desks
- Make sure the room is 80 in the summer and 40 in the winter
- Get the grading software to stop working just before conferences
- Printer paper? Skip it
- Make sure to promote how much you spent on the new football equipment just after telling us about the skipped copy paper
- Give me another pay cut
- Make my benefits more expensive
- Extend the school day and the school year simultaneously while doing both #11 and #12
- Increase class sizes
- Don’t send me an IEP or 504 until at least October 9th
- Chastise me for not following those IEPs and 504s in September
- Put kids into my class that both don’t want to be there and also who don’t meet the recommendations or prerequisites.
- Eliminate all science elective classes.
- Don’t discipline my worst-behaving students but make sure my great kid who made one mistake gets a 2-week suspension.
- And finally, PA announcements. Make like a bazillion of them, but make sure they don’t apply to me and my students.
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