[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have just turned into like a submissions central because people are passionate and this time of year y'all are extra passionate That's why I thought of this because I was like this is when principles are like peak principaling like this is when they're like when they're full form is for the first ten days of school and then you'll never see them again So I was like I knew we'd have lots of info.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean I like in the past have been semi nervous to talk about principles because every time we do somebody comes in the like DMs or whatever and they're like [SPEAKER_03]: you don't understand what it's like to be a principal like it's so you guys don't understand what it's like to be me so that makes to us yeah so I just in my old age I've grown to be like yeah well [SPEAKER_00]: We all don't know things about each other so this is kind of like this is the way that I view it and I think this is very comparable is like I've had a lot of principles that will like let you make fun of them the same way like Some teachers get really defensive when kids are like teachers suck [SPEAKER_00]: some teachers take that really personally and I think if you take that really personally that means you're harboring guilt about something and you know you deserve it and I feel the same way about principles because when we make fun of principles a lot of really good principles will like comment and they're like ha ha ha like they are laughing with us so if you are a principal and you feel like we're laughing at you that's something happening with you that I can't speak on because I've never been in that situation but I wish you good luck [SPEAKER_00]: And as I said in a TikTok the other day, try being helpful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you feel like everyone hates you, be like, what would I have done to make them like me?

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can't think of anything, you might be right.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great first step because now you can do something about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: What's the saying if it doesn't apply, let it slide or something like that?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like if it doesn't apply to you, let it go.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we all have bad colleagues.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like when we say, oh, we hate when principles do this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then a principal comments, they're like, I would never do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's on about you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's about submitter.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, should we do emails?

[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a lot of emails.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I'm now a team just email because we said email us.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, follow directions.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing a different submission thing for my stream and someone DMed it to me on Instagram and it had said to email it and I was like, whatever, I'm still going to count it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they got like an hour later, they emailed me and were like, so sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I DMed it to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: So ignore that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, hell yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have trained them so well.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we asked you all to send us your principal ex.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this can be like a petty egg.

[SPEAKER_00]: Something that just bothers you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know if I made this up.

[SPEAKER_00]: or dreamed it, or if it was real.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm envisioning a principle who goes around the school on like helis.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you're just like you hate that, but like it's not that serious, send us that, or it can be something very deeply serious to you, that is actually illegal and really bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: Was it their heli gate on the internet?

[SPEAKER_03]: Right, right.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was that guy, I think.

[SPEAKER_03]: I pretty sure it was helis and then the comments were all like, if a woman did this, it would not be allowed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I remember that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I literally, I was like, what it though?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I think I could do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I was like, good to.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, normally I'm really one to agree with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I really think, [SPEAKER_00]: If I wore helis to work, nothing would happen to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would get put on the school Instagram again.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'd be like, look at this cool teacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't she cool as hell?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's like, everyone on TikTok always says, like, how do you not get in trouble for the poster of you crying?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's so unprofessional that you have a poster of you crying that I got observed by like someone who works directly for the superintendent and he literally took out his little boomer phone and took a picture of it and goes, now that's funny.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, what were they gonna tell you?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, uh, it was something about Helie's man.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did we bully him off the internet or is he still there?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he was coming up on my for you page in a while.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pretty sure he's still there.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I don't scroll a whole lot, but I do remember that recently I've seen like a lot of people remembering things from like, twenty twenty one and being like, we were really easy to offend.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: They like bring stuff up and they're like, we knew so little.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we were like, you're wearing helis in your classroom and now the federal government is like, you smiling is a crime.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, maybe helis in the classroom guy was on the phone.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, it wasn't a principle, but yes, anyways, let us begin.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's still on here doing his damn thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't posted in a while though.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hope, sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you're doing okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry if we believe you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember.

[SPEAKER_00]: What if he injured himself on the helis?

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he did, maybe oh she got involved.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's talk about the principal ex that you all sent to us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey Besties, longtime listener, first time submitter.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got we got a lot of subject lines like this on this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like people were holding these in.

[SPEAKER_00]: My ex is just them existing to make up for my lack of aster answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this can be for a different pod, but my principal growing up took me to the annual father, daughter, breakfast at my elementary school.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is yours positive?

[UNKNOWN]: you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm confused.

[SPEAKER_03]: Was he a predator?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think this is nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: My brain finished reading it and I didn't read it out loud.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, my principal took me to the annual father daughter breakfast at my elementary school.

[SPEAKER_00]: My dad passed away when I was two, so him taking me was a really sweet gesture.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love y'all.

[SPEAKER_03]: But that's not what we asked.

[SPEAKER_00]: She said them existing, but then gave us a positive story.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's okay, I guess.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one's better.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one's title is my fuckass principle.

[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.

[SPEAKER_01]: There we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: These are literally exactly what I wanted.

[SPEAKER_01]: They gave a list of seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: One, where shirts that are a size too big, so he always looks like he's wearing Stad's work clothes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two does literally nothing all day.

[SPEAKER_00]: He delegates all of his tasks to everyone else and spend more time, spends more time talking to the office secretaries about the food he wants them to order for lunch that he spends doing any work related tasks.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, that unfortunately is me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very passionate about lunch.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm imagining him.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know those big curved monitors, your husband probably has one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like those giant ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm imagining him with like door dash on one screen, Uber eats on another screen.

[SPEAKER_00]: three is a bad public speaker and makes me physically cringe during staff meetings.

[SPEAKER_00]: So another hot take, I think being a good public speaker is one of the actual basic tenants of being a principal and I'm tired of principals who are bad public speakers.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I say bad, I mean either bad like they literally don't know how to hold a microphone correctly and project their voice into that microphone because talking in front of a room is different than talking on a microphone.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you actually can't yell into the microphone.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like if you're bad at that, [SPEAKER_00]: No, fix it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also, if you're just like not an engaging speaker, you're uncomfortable public speaking, like this is not the job for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Number four is short.

[SPEAKER_00]: Number five, we probably should have been expecting, is the sign of someone on the school board, which is probably how he is actually employed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only builds friendships or relationships with the very few male educators we have at our school.

[SPEAKER_00]: Seven is Spineless and stands for nothing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love you, Submitter.

[SPEAKER_03]: I stand with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: They said this felt cathartic to list out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was literally perfect because some of yours were like very valid nepotism things that do need to be investigated and also I don't like your fucking shirt.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your shirt sucks.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_03]: You could do you sneeze and I'm like, fuck up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why would you do that?

[SPEAKER_00]: I love when like, actually I really hate when this happens but I always find it kind of comical.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is when like you get to a place with a boss where everything they do upsets you and like they can tell like they look at you and they know that you hate them so much and they know that nothing that they do is gonna make you even okay or happy in any way.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they just look at you with this sad helplessness.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're just like, I hate you so fucking much.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, literally.

[SPEAKER_00]: You just get to the point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to hear about a new diet culture thing I invented?

[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm trying to be skinnier because of society, I guess.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't want to be on a Zen pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone just suggests that first thing, taking a slight offense to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, I'm gonna cut out Baja Blast, impossible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, tried the Zero Sugar Baja Blast, disgusting.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I started adding my own sugar to the Zero Sugar Baja Blast, because the regular Baja Blast has sixty-five grams of sugar.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I figure if I'm drinking like a fifteen gram of sugar Baja Blast, that's better.

[SPEAKER_03]: I support everything that you do.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing that you're gonna tell me that I'm gonna be like, wow, that's toxic.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was concocting that right before we got on here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's actually not even sugar.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a simple syrup that they use in cocktails.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got, I would love to just watch you do that silently by yourself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I just love picturing.

[SPEAKER_03]: You stirring simple syrup into your bomb.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's zero.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone thinks that I'm against those epic because of some like reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, you don't deserve it or some like shaming reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a fear of needles that is genuinely debilitating.

[SPEAKER_03]: You should have seen me the first time I had to inject myself with insulin and the first time that I had to prick my finger.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I hysterical?

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I googled the other day and I actually thought of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: can you reject the IV during childbirth?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, can you just be like, nah, I'm good.

[SPEAKER_00]: What I found Googling is that you can, but a lot of hospitals will refuse to treat you if you won't take it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it depends on the hospital.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they said Googling it in advance.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and a lot of it is because like they just need access to your vein in case you start hemorrhaging and dying.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I saw and I was like, what are the chances of that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty high, I fear.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I, one of the things that I wish I had done is been pick year about like the placement because they like to put it on the back of your arm or your hands that you're like free to do things, but I think I like genuinely don't care as much about being able to do things.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just think it didn't feel good to have it on the back of my arms.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I should have just like, you know, just let's put it somewhere else and I feel like they would have been like, okay, [SPEAKER_00]: whatever you want like they would have been very chill about that but when my mom had me in the hospital they put the IV in and she said like ten times she was like it doesn't feel right it doesn't feel right and they were like no it looks fine like IVs are just uncomfortable and she was like no I've had IVs it doesn't feel right and then my grandma came in the room and my grandma's a nurse and my mom was like hey this doesn't feel right and my grandma took it out of her arm and replaced it in the other arm and they were like really really angry that she did that and threatened to remove her [SPEAKER_00]: But the next day, my mom said the IV that the hospital place, her whole arm was black and blue, up her arm and the one that my grandma placed was totally fine.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had that, I had black and blue for like a week.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was bad to discuss.

[SPEAKER_03]: But my mom is a nurse too, so she very much is like, she would have done that for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: If I had asked, she was doing my insulin, she was like sticking my fingers, she was doing all manner of things for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because I was like, mommy, if I ever have a child, I'm just gonna hire her.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think you should.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's, I don't know what I would have done.

[SPEAKER_03]: So anyways, here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: AI psychosis and weaponizing furlough.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get into it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Fan of the pod.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for the laughs and hard work.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have two principal ex, but they are about two different principals.

[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect.

[SPEAKER_03]: Feel free to choose or cut if you share and read on the pod.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: First out of college I worked in the Philadelphia Catholic school system.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a great experience by first few years out of college and I was able to transition to public school a few years ago.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was hired at one high school that I loved and had a great experience and great support of department.

[SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, I was laid off at the end of the year due to low enrollment and I was the most recent hire.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Taylor's oldest time.

[SPEAKER_03]: They would call this constriction.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody calls it something different, not that matters, it's not the point.

[SPEAKER_03]: That principle was really kind about it, and was supportive in not making it personal.

[SPEAKER_03]: However, the next Catholic school I landed up at, the principle would often weaponize constriction by trying to lay off people she didn't like rather than the needs of the school.

[SPEAKER_03]: She did this to the point where they didn't have enough teachers for certain content areas, even though they just cut positions.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was asmonine and cruel.

[SPEAKER_03]: The second principle is for my current position.

[SPEAKER_03]: He helped me with a grad class, which was super nice.

[SPEAKER_03]: Later in the year, he and I had this tense conversation about the schedule changing for the upcoming year, and after he sends me this weird thank you email, he said he's appreciative of my hard work and time and recognize his concerns I shared about the schedule, which on its face is nice, but something about it rubbed me the wrong way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then I remembered his comment about AI and I used an AI detector.

[SPEAKER_03]: His thank you email was AI-generated.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you need to articulate intelligence to tell your staff member you appreciate them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Since then, I can't not notice when he uses AI to email staff things that should not require AI.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our school is also changing our schedule with little teacher input, and I'm eighty percent certain the master schedule was AI-made or mostly AI-generated.

[SPEAKER_03]: Talking with other teachers who got their schedule, it looks like there are big gaps, and I think it was because of his chat GPT psychosis.

[SPEAKER_03]: That is my latest principal egg.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when your principal could say, I psychosis, so relatable.

[SPEAKER_00]: What I noticed one time of principal was doing is that like, I don't know if this is better or worse than AI, they would put out email or not emails, but it was like in an email and it was a PDF that was a letter.

[SPEAKER_00]: about like whatever happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this has happened multiple times.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once was like incident, once was like an announcement of a new thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like sometimes good, sometimes bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I would always notice that like some parts had like different fonts.

[SPEAKER_00]: By like it would be like one point bigger or like italicized.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it would just be a little different.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I found that they were basically like cobble stoning together old stuff to like make their new announcements.

[SPEAKER_00]: And like, would put like a quote, but it would be in a slightly different font.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it was like, you copied that quote.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know if you copied the quote and just didn't match the like either way.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is not good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Either way, bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: Redicted, we have a hundred and fifty.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've more than a hundred and fifty of these submissions.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know, I told you the people were like tromping at the bit because this is principal X season.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is like I said when the principals like the beginning of school is their full moon.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are here.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have initiatives.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have ideas.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just went summer shopping.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they are ready to terrorize us.

[SPEAKER_03]: I am just so shocked.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, somebody's forwarded us emails from their principal.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you see that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: For something that I have cooking, that'll be coming your way in the next month or so.

[SPEAKER_00]: I actually had to Google the other day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it illegal to post an email that someone sent to me?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because once you send it to me, I feel like it's well within my rights to post it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And for anyone here curious, my Googling told me if the email contains like confidential information, like their address, phone number, stuff like that, you cannot post that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to get rid of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if it is like copyrighted, like if someone emails you a song they wrote, that's different.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if it's just an email correspondence to you and you obtained it from them, like you didn't hack into their computer, like they sent it to you, I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like it's fine.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just turned around in my child is obsessed with ice.

[SPEAKER_03]: She has a Tupperwork container of ice in one hand and my phone in the other hand coloring and she's tugging the ice like this.

[SPEAKER_03]: like feet kicked up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Get her a snow code machine and just don't put the dye in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good idea.

[SPEAKER_00]: I used to go in on that when I was a kid.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes if we were good, my almond mom would let us put juice in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really getting crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Back to the origin story of the diet culture with the blah blah blah.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm connecting some dots here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I should be paying you the ninety dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, anyways, do you have a favorite that you'd like to read next?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like raw dogging them and going in order.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm not going to include your name even though you said it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here are my stories.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an ASL interpreter and I used to work for public schools.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, perspective, I don't think we've gotten before.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was at this one school with many deaf students and their respective interpreters.

[SPEAKER_00]: The school was a relatively small for a public six, twelve school, maybe eight hundred students.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is a very small.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, my principal didn't know any of the interpreters names.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just flat out refused to acknowledge us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he was just being so inclusive that he was like, you're a part of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like, you know how they say, like, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they're called.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those devices where the kids can press buttons to say things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they say like you should consider it a part of the child's body.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like don't grab it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't take it away from them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that principle was like, if I acknowledge them, that is able to.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, just flat out refused to acknowledge us at a different school in another state the student I worked with wanted to join some extra curriculars.

[SPEAKER_00]: The VP and principal both didn't understand why I was requesting over time as if the student wasn't still deaf after school.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, what do you mean?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's after school.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ban practice with it.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: The principles and schools in general need to do better on understanding support role.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, we shit.

[SPEAKER_03]: We had that one person that was like, you have to collect data for three years to prove that kids blind.

[SPEAKER_03]: Remember that one?

[SPEAKER_03]: And they were like, no, she blind.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, wave your hand in front of her face.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like for three years.

[SPEAKER_03]: And write that down.

[SPEAKER_03]: vlog it daily.

[SPEAKER_03]: The meanwhile the kids like I just want to learn.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is embarrassing.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is horribly embarrassing and like again with the illegal things that just why why do we have laws anyways?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have shag never forget when I literally heard when it teachers.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is something I witnessed in real life.

[SPEAKER_00]: An administrator said something I don't remember what it was, but then a teacher this was years ago said like, well then wouldn't we be out of compliance with like XYZ for special education?

[SPEAKER_00]: And the administrator goes, well, you know, it's always our goal to be in compliance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, he's like dream big dream big.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, literally.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, I love that idea.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like one day one day man.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna have to fucking teach for America, but it's what?

[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody the other day was, I was talking to somebody and they were like, oh, I did teach for America and I was like, yeah, we're totally the same.

[SPEAKER_03]: We had the same experiences you and I, because they were one of the ones that were like in the core and then dipped, like they didn't stay.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were just like, it's shocking how it's such a small commitment yet so few finish it, so few.

[SPEAKER_03]: So here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: Was that the end of that one?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was a short one.

[SPEAKER_03]: This one caught my eye because I want to bitch about my old principle that I hated.

[SPEAKER_03]: Our principle uses a grit every day on the announcement as a synonym for endurance and tenacity.

[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta have grit, or it takes grit to be the good students I know you can be.

[SPEAKER_03]: It got really old, but she just kept up with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: She went over the top at one of the pet brolleys when she dumped a five gallon bucket of cooked breakfast grits on her head.

[SPEAKER_03]: She was overly convinced.

[SPEAKER_03]: That and it was so it keeps.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just have your face behind the screen and when I said that she dumped grits on her head, your face was amazing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, like, even if you wanted to go this route and like you wanted to bring grits to school, wouldn't it have made so much more sense to give everyone a small portion and be like, have some grit?

[SPEAKER_00]: Cause like, I put the Gatorade sauce like...

[SPEAKER_00]: How long did it take your hair to recover from that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I, the grit thing is so triggering for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, because I think there was a principal training that somebody somewhere was doing something.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a podcast in their Facebook group.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you can tell when something drops in the Facebook group.

[SPEAKER_03]: My gosh, or it was like a TED talk that they all circulated in their Facebook group.

[SPEAKER_03]: They love the TED talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to hear something horrible?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know that it's actually a great TED talk of that teacher.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember her name, but she has like short hair and big earrings on and she's wearing like a red and black outfit.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think where she's like talking to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: The why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, like it's actually really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just been like used and abused.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that woman passed away.

[SPEAKER_00]: like a couple years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, wow, Admin will not let her rest in peace.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like she actually, I remember the first time I watched that, I actually did find it very inspiring and compelling.

[SPEAKER_00]: After time four, I lost that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I and let her rest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like we've all seen it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've all seen it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've all seen it.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've all seen it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe that you started that sentence and I was like, there's no fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to remember this TED talk by, and then you described like the coloring.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was just like on the stage and she's like, this is your why and how she told the kids they were the best class.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, do I need to really did a great job?

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's, wouldn't let it go.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're tired.

[SPEAKER_03]: You have too much of a good thing, and it's not a good thing anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because it really was a good message, but now everyone just associates it with like admin nonsense, which is like her legacy deserves better.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the principle, the same one that I always complain about, she, just the worst with the little, the little words that she liked to use.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just couldn't with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The buzzwords.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate a buzzword, admin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate a buzzword, admin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate a buzzword, admin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate a buzzword, anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: You want me to read?

[SPEAKER_00]: I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our principal sent an email to one person per department one time telling us how much we all suck to basically.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have a prep last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I had a hundred and ninety three students and seventy of them weren't at proficiency one month into the school year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I helped make the standardized assessments the district did that year.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he used that as a point to say I should be well aware of what students need needed for success.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just because you made the test, doesn't mean they can do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two different things.

[SPEAKER_03]: Very different things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Especially you probably made it before you met them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm confused by that logic.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, he came into my classroom during our power hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that is, but I don't think I would like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's reading.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's what my mom used to call it when she made us clean our house on Sunday and she would always say it's one hour, it's one hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then when the hour timer went off in our house was still a disaster, she would go, well keep going because apparently you guys made too big of a mess during the week.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hardly, that's what I was doing this morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we would be like, but it's been an hour and she'd be like, and you're not done.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you weren't moving fast enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm done.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm going to go sit down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Literally, she'd be like, I cleaned my room in my office.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, what's the problem?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: My toys are away.

[SPEAKER_03]: What about you?

[SPEAKER_00]: Literally.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had also been, okay, so he came into our, my classroom during our power hour and wanted to know why I didn't have seventy students in my room during that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe power hours like pull out for remediation or something?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, where are all of them?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's like when my admin asked me where my small group of red was, but every single student except one had scored in red.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the one that passed was sitting at my desk eating candy and everyone else was working.

[SPEAKER_03]: hilarious.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's like when they were like, what are you doing for small group for reading?

[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, you're looking at it.

[SPEAKER_03]: the general population here is at kindergarten first grade level.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the ones that are at third grade are reading.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they know how.

[SPEAKER_03]: So looking at the Titanic pop up book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Would you like to join them?

[SPEAKER_00]: I know you're a third grade reading level.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a small group over there.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're all learning phonics.

[SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to know why I didn't have seventy students in my room during that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also been told in the same email that there had been problems with my instruction in the past despite being highly effective every year since I started.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's always the principles that will label you as highly effective.

[SPEAKER_00]: That will turn around six months later and be like, everyone's been complaining about you for years.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that is my least favorite thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's happened to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's loser.

[SPEAKER_00]: We said for years, we've been getting complaints about you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got a ninety seven out of a hundred on my evaluation last year, but got it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Says more about then than you, really.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, oh, most bosses would have made their employee aware of those complaints.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they could rectify them, but you're called.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, that's my story.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have some more from that same principle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love you both.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for letting me share.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's our pleasure.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: This one starts with, I'm scared to mention this, but here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hell yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: One of my teacher friends got home one day and her dog was dead.

[SPEAKER_03]: Rest in peace.

[SPEAKER_03]: And as a sympathy gift, she gave my friend a bottle of jalapeno tequila and a box of those Lego flowers with a note that said something that won't die.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of funny.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not the time, but [SPEAKER_03]: It depends on the audience, and I would laugh.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if it was someone that was close to me, I would laugh.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if my principal did that, I would call HR, but they wouldn't answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's fine, I guess.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: They'd be like, we have bigger issues.

[SPEAKER_03]: Remember the laws that aren't being followed?

[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, this person also says she got so drunk that she was slurring her word that a happy hour hosted at another teacher's house on a Thursday night.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we had school the next day.

[SPEAKER_03]: And lastly, because it's my favorite, hired her son as a full-time teacher, but doesn't require him to have a home room.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do any extra duties like pick-up or drop-up duty, lunch recess duty, and he rarely covers classes.

[SPEAKER_03]: He also gets to coach whatever sports he wants, and she keeps trying to hook him up with any young unmarried teachers.

[SPEAKER_03]: They say, I hope you laugh at these horrible stories because I have to laugh to avoid seeking alternative employment.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think she might be the boy mom, the boy mom final boss.

[SPEAKER_00]: Final boss.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like to be a female principal with your son on staff and not make him do anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's his evaluation looking like?

[SPEAKER_00]: Good, probably.

[SPEAKER_00]: Probably very never been evaluated.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if that's even like, it's not allowed because in my district, God, every time I have to do anything, I have to sign a thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Being like, are you related to anyone on the board?

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone in the district office?

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone in administration?

[SPEAKER_00]: And you have to like list out who you're related to and how you're related.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've had to do that multiple times.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like every time we update our shit, they make us just start from scratch.

[SPEAKER_00]: You want me to read?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, please keep this anonymous.

[SPEAKER_00]: We will defend you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was a first year teacher, one parent kept complaining about me to admin.

[SPEAKER_00]: The day of parent teacher conferences, my first ones mind you, the principal pulled me into a conference room during prep.

[SPEAKER_00]: She started off with parents, plural, aren't happy with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I had sent positive messages home, the whole shabang, I said, well, what's the deal?

[SPEAKER_00]: And she did not like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's so neat.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, just genuinely asking to fix it and then somehow now you're in trouble.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's their deal?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I literally, like, so let's get to the bottom of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's go.

[SPEAKER_00]: She did not like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: She said the deal was my attitude and she couldn't believe I spoke to her that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate conversations like this where someone says that to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, and you can tell in their voice, they're assuming you already knew this was a problem.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is you just now realizing I've been in this seat so many times where I just thought we are all having a good time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then suddenly it's like, this is your final straw about your attitude.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, [SPEAKER_00]: me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm not all having fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: I gave you guys, I go set with the, they won't die and I was like, you laughed.

[SPEAKER_02]: You laughed.

[SPEAKER_02]: You laughed.

[SPEAKER_02]: I saw you laugh.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why did you laugh?

[SPEAKER_00]: If it wasn't like, it was no, when you left everyone said they were really concerned.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how would I, if not concerned enough to say to me, okay, so Ben in this shoe sister slash brother, you're anonymous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, she said the deal was my attitude and she couldn't believe I spoke to her that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what's the deal was probably a poor choice of words, but I thought things were improving.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I genuinely wanted to know what the deal was.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she started telling me I was rude, et cetera.

[SPEAKER_00]: I start crying.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is so us.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now mind you this is an open conference room and one of my students is right next door in the office hearing all of that and that's the principal's fault for making you cry multiple times admin has made me cry and children have overheard it because later have like been like girl that was crazy [SPEAKER_00]: The kids will take your side.

[SPEAKER_00]: She continues to say that she doesn't trust me enough to tell me which parents and students have issues with me because I'll retaliate against the children.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pardon me.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a horrible leadership.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like the worst.

[SPEAKER_00]: If a parent has a problem with you, and you don't know, you're just going to make it worse.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because if I know a parent has a problem with me, I'm going to be very intentional about my words.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to reply to them or answer their calls unless I'm in a space where I can do it well and not have kids in my room.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is literally the worst thing you could possibly do in this situation.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wouldn't have been better to just tell her nothing at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: She closes the door and is confused as to why I'm crying.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's confused.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why me, a first-year teacher, is crying because she told me she doesn't trust me to not pick on children.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then she says if my lessons were better, students would be more engaged and there would be less behavior issues.

[SPEAKER_00]: Was not trained on this now banned curriculum.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's correct.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's saying like, they had new curriculum that she wasn't trained on and now that curriculum's banned.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's always the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's, I'm like, God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I a bunch of not me because I've never used it, but a bunch of people are really upset right now because some districts in here me used to require class dojo and then now they banned it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, the class dojo slander drives me nuts because some people do use it as a virtual clip chart, but it's not like I never did.

[SPEAKER_03]: I never took away points.

[SPEAKER_03]: I never like [SPEAKER_03]: Whatever, like I never it was never public usually it was like a Pavlov's dog situation where I just pressed the button and it would go and then all the kids would be like [SPEAKER_00]: I know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know elementary people that use it for like, like, I don't want to say the social media aspect, but they like to post two or three posts today for the parents to see because then they said they feel like they don't have to send emails with updates about like class wide things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, you still do individual ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: But like this week, we're doing these experiences.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yep.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the parents would like reply to each other.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know a lot of people like it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love it for that social media aspect.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is not sponsored by Class Dojo, but literally like it could be Class Dojo if you're listening.

[SPEAKER_03]: When we would start like a new unit in math class, I would be like, okay, this is a video of me doing their homework, or I post a picture of like the worksheet, me like this is how you do this, and this is why we're doing it this way, and here's a YouTube video, and like I would message parents on that, like it was my holy grail.

[SPEAKER_03]: So for them to ban it, what are you gonna chop up my arm next?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's apparently some kind of disagreement with like a data or log, I don't know, like it's some kind of stupid solvable problem.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, she says if my lessons were better, the students would be more engaged, but now that curriculum is banned.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I go back to my team and start crying again, and then they drop the news that the principal is ill, and it's affecting her brain.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I try to give her grace, I guess.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is she still principal?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I wish her all the healing in the world, but if you're having brain issues that makes you treat your staff this way, you need to be on FMLA leave.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can go straight to Congress with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need you in the UN.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not at elementary school.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why aren't you in federal government at this point?

[SPEAKER_03]: You should be leading departments.

[SPEAKER_03]: You should be making legislature.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I guess I'll try and give her grace.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was not a good year.

[SPEAKER_00]: That district still has a ton of in all caps of big issues.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because the principal hasn't assumed her rightful position.

[SPEAKER_03]: Where's if what get out of there?

[SPEAKER_00]: he has the same thing in her brain that RFK has those words.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone said something about RFK that I found to be so poetic, because I said I was like he's just so insane, like occasionally he'll say things I agree with, but he's just too insane of a person.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so when I know in real life goes, well if the CIA had murdered your uncle and your dad, you'd be insane too.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Kennedys were insane before that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's be real see.

[SPEAKER_03]: They've been crazy the whole time and everybody who's married in just it's contagious.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know I bring this up a lot, but you've not seen boardwalk empire, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: There's like one or two episodes.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to watch it for Kennedy reasons don't because it literally is like three minutes of an entire series.

[SPEAKER_00]: But like the OG Kennedy, they make like illusions to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's in a couple of scenes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, no, I'm in politics.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to meet with those drug dealers or with those liquor dealers.

[SPEAKER_00]: But like, yeah, yeah, the liquor dealings fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't want to talk to that.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only Kennedy I speak to is Jack's Lashberg.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how to say it's last name.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the hot one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, I want to read this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know I just want to read this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: This subject line is principle a cold raising canes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a principle who got us box combos from raising canes for lunch on staff development day.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the egg.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, that's a pretty good lunch.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if I eat raising canes, I'm done the rest of the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Me and my coworkers on Miami Beach used to get raising canes once a month and we would block our calendar for the entire afternoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: We would take a late lunch at like two and then we would be so sweaty from the raising canes that we would put a fake meeting in this one conference room that was always freezing because it was like right next to the system and we would literally just lay there having canes sweats on the floor for like two and a half hours.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the day would be over.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'd be like, all right, let's back it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is so beautiful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so the egg is that she called us all to the cafeteria, sat us down and then proceeded to have an hour long meeting before letting us eat the canes.

[SPEAKER_00]: The boxes were sitting up stacked on tables in the back of the room.

[SPEAKER_00]: So by the time we were allowed to eat it, it was cold and gross.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were so close because raising canes is expensive and really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: They should have just like empowered someone to go get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what my old principal who I loved would do is whenever we had a meeting, like a veteran teacher who had been to that meeting a million times, he would be like go get the food and then like time it so that it was ready.

[SPEAKER_03]: Gosh, that's all you work as a team.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you also listen to their strengths, he got in trouble with the district because [SPEAKER_00]: We're supposed to only use like approved vendors and he would just hire this old man to fry fish and they were like, what's his LLC in the old man was like, I take cash only.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know not doing that, so we had to stop.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but how do we get to the point where you have a fried fish guy?

[SPEAKER_00]: The South is an incredible place.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, somebody got so mad at me yesterday because I was bitching about some whatever on TikTok.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I quoted the audio that's like, did I touch y'all's heart when I was crying on the episode?

[SPEAKER_03]: And they left me like a very long paragraph on two different videos being like, how dare you use a Southern accent to like call this person stupid and mock her?

[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, I was quoting Gypsy Rose Lee's ex husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought we all were on the same page about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's like when I reference TikTok audios to my class that they don't know, because sometimes I'll reference an audio and it like hits.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like they know it and it hits and then sometimes I'll do it and they all look at me and they're like, hmm.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really thought that we were all there, but like, this one crushed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone can feel free to take this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was doing like a wrap up end of class, like, hey, what'd you all get out of this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you learn anything?

[SPEAKER_00]: And none of them were really participating.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were all just kind of looking at me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I looked at my elite employee and pointed to her and I go, Usher's, close the doors.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, they love that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought it was so funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: They like laughed and then started answering because I think they knew like deep down I was serious.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, let me see.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've gotten more since we've been sitting here.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know this one says it is the hottest of bullshit public H S R L A district PD laid down the law and I had to share with you.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh honey, but it's actually too many acronyms for me.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

[SPEAKER_03]: This one says HQIM RLA campus T.

I know what a star is STAR and HQIM.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so sorry, friends.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have to I'm gonna mark that one on red because I don't have my brain won't work.

[SPEAKER_03]: um geriatric butterfly catcher my principal who is an old man in his mid seventies dresses butterfly catcher for Halloween and various women employees were asked to dress as butterflies there was banter on the walkies that day like the hallways are clear except for a few butterflies on the first floor and he would chime in on my way with my net so he could run around pretending to catch them yep [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was going to be like like a code word for tardy students.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like was like I thought it was kind of like kitchie and fun because like when I worked at a resort that was on a lake, we weren't allowed to say snakes.

[SPEAKER_00]: We would say cotton candy over the radio in case a guest heard it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I wouldn't be like, hey, there's snakes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would have to be like, hey, maintenance.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's some cotton candy at the dock that I need you to take care of because it was mostly like cotton, mouth snakes or whatever, like the non poisonous ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I thought this was a way to like, tell other staff, like, get them when the kids are late with like, like, without the kids knowing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, so you could be on the radio and be like, we need a butterfly catcher in this hallway.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because what always happens at my school that's really annoying is like, our security is not very demeanor.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like, there'll be children gathering, like, vaping or filming TikToks or just normal high school ruckus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And security will be like clumping from down the hallway on the radio so that they'll scatter.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, that's funny though.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think that I like the code word.

[SPEAKER_03]: Why not, but now this was very much a it's a king.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think no.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I fear.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, can I read one more?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: This one says, just, it's a list.

[SPEAKER_03]: One, played Dominic the donkey over the loudspeakers most mornings during the week leading up to winter slash Christmas break to celebrate his Italian heritage.

[SPEAKER_03]: But told our librarian, she couldn't have a secular holiday tree with ornaments and made her put it back in her car during the school day.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my God.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll also scream happy birthday at random kids as they walk in the building at seven thirty in the morning just because he thinks it's funny.

[SPEAKER_03]: Number three doesn't bring a note pad or pen to meetings and is scrolling on his phone the whole time.

[SPEAKER_03]: Pause his conversation to inject a devil's advocate question after twenty minutes and then leaves without waiting for an answer to set question.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very good list of X.

People came up and out for this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have to do more.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is only one thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: It says staff meetings or family meetings.

[SPEAKER_00]: Staff meetings or family meetings.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a family and they're very dysfunctional.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I never said I was looking for a new one.

[SPEAKER_03]: Literally.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, the three year old is here.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've been doing this since you were six months old.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think I [SPEAKER_03]: Now you're bigger.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you remember when I used to do it with you laying on the bed?

[SPEAKER_03]: As a little munchkin potato.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's nodding her head.

[SPEAKER_03]: You have to talk on a podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: They can't see you because I keep you off the internet.

[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, um, there are so many, we are going to have to do just submissions forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a good like palette cleanser.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we should state keep these.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some weeks when we have like very serious episodes, this is like a good thing to do after that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing you dice people like a shared enemy.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're principle and you are not confident enough to lean into that role with humor and grace, it's your problem.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not mine.

[SPEAKER_03]: Can I read you one more?

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_03]: My first year of teaching, twenty twenty twenty-one was in a very small town in a rural Utah.

[SPEAKER_03]: The district doesn't start school until the last week of August because they have to wait until after the county fair kind of rural.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was in the kind of rural.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you guys get off the first day of buck season to go hunting?

[SPEAKER_03]: We do not.

[SPEAKER_03]: We did.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's because like my district is very, very large.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like my school is more like small town vibes, but a lot of schools are not.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that's why because I know some other districts that are more rule, I think do get weird time off.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it says many of our student body did not have reliable internet service.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we were fully in person and masked the whole year.

[SPEAKER_03]: At one point, we only had forty percent of our student body attending because of quarantine protocols.

[SPEAKER_03]: The statewide mask mandate ended one week before our school year actually ended due to us starting later than most districts.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Friday between before the last week of school, my principal who was about to retire and hadn't given a shit pretty much all year, changed our bell schedule to make shift assembly schedule to have a mask burning party.

[SPEAKER_03]: The entire student body went out to the field where we had burn barrels already lit and waiting for the eight hundred and fifty plus eight and nine graders to throw their masks into.

[SPEAKER_03]: We made the news.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's look.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I need to.

[SPEAKER_03]: And by order of governor Spencer Cox, districts and stop requiring masks for the last week of the school year.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then here it says a Utah Middle School throws a mask burning to celebrate the last day of state imposed mandate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know where there are any kids, because I have a lot of kids that do this day still mask, not even necessarily for like disease reasons.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just like, I think like the emotional feeling kind of the way a hoodie.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, where there are any kids that were like, I'm not burning my mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you will not take my mask off.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe so.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this is, okay, here's what this guy said.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the principle.

[SPEAKER_03]: It said the event was very positive and upbeat.

[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't try it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, we're literally having a good time.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it says we didn't, it says we didn't try to make any political statement on it at all.

[SPEAKER_03]: That was not our intent.

[SPEAKER_03]: We just wanted a good, hygienic way to get rid of those things.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he added, good things come from fire, like hardened steel.

[SPEAKER_03]: This person is crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Technically true, but like, really, [SPEAKER_03]: Specific to bring up.

[SPEAKER_03]: What my goodness.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you all for your submissions.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: We like this a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: We will be doing it again.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're her.

[SPEAKER_00]: We hope you have a good day, friends.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you soon.