"Union's on strike, He's Down on his luck, its tough"

Wow my life is interesting now! I don’t even have to make my own drama.

We are now in day 2 of the strike. Yesterday afternoon at our faculty meeting we learned that two more Board of Trustee members (the bad guys) resigned, leaving only 5 of the original 10. They now don’t have quorum and are impotent (ha ha), BUT the remaining board members are digging in and putting up sand bags.

We then needed to vote whether or not to continue the strike. Fortunately, the entire team of principals walked in and announced that they were also now on strike as well. They then all dropped pants and showed that they spelled the words “K-I-S-S O-U-R” on their asses, and directed this towards the remaining board members.

Teachers of course voted to extend strike alongside the principals. Board members had till 8 pm last night to resign. They did not, because they are subscribers to the douche-bag-philosophy. Thus, I had to call 10 of my students and tell them there would not be school today. NOT fun. One board member, in a burst of professionalism, texted the teacher community with the message, “As parents, we think you should all be fired.” We are currently looking for a service that delivers flaming bags of poo to his doorstep. No luck yet.

Today one more Board member resigned (the guy mentioned above). I spent a few hours calling parents trying to get the 800 votes we need to oust the remained 4 board members. I will honestly tell you that if I had to be a telemarketer to put bread on the table, I would starve. Wow did that suck. It’s not easy explaining the situation over a fuzzy connection to a mom who speaks mainly Japanese. But, I think I added a few votes for the good guys. We only need about 150 more.

And so....we meet again in a few hours, but I am not optimistic that the remaining board will resign, nor that we will get enough votes soon enough to have school on Friday. The bullshit will likely last the rest of the week.

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