The tiny light in the bleakness
Reason #243425 why the high school kids I work with are awesome:
The students are not allowed to bring any food or drink into the classrooms. This is ridiculous for a lot of reasons, but mostly it’s just impractical and annoying.
Today, the students were given candy as a prize for a game they played. The teacher shut the door and told them that if they heard a knock on the door, they’d have to stash the candy quick so that we wouldn’t get into trouble, because the director of the program was so uptight about food in the rooms.
The program’s director is also my boss. I’ve started to refer to her as Il Duce. Believe me when I say that this is an insult to Mussolini.
One of the students, Cherish*, started talking about her. “I don’t like her attitude,” she said to the teacher.
I burst out laughing. It was, verbatim, the same comment I had made about Il Duce just a few hours earlier at breakfast.
*Obviously, this is not her real name.
