October 21st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I should add that said useless assembly involved the Dean of the College of Education at the university where I work and his director of Grants and Special Projects. The Director showed a video that due to technical difficulties was 8 minutes of soundless images of people talking about our university. The Dean gave a “motivational” speech, the kind that kids in failing, mostly black schools hear all the time. You know, “get your life together, learn your school work, study hard or bad things are going to happen to you!” I kept waiting for “you’re going to end up dead or in jail,” but he was smart enough to know that you should only imply that a la, “get a plan for your life or someone else will plan it for you!”
Needless to say, the kids were nonplussed by both speakers. What they loved was the Greeks stepping.
I HATE assemblies. HATE HATE HATE. Today they’ve got a faculty-8th grade volleyball match. That’s two days in a row with that kind of thing. You’d think that in a school labeled as “failing” there’d be a premium on instructional time, right? Bread and circuses, friends. Bread and circuses.
