Today the teachers at my school basically said Enough is Enough and put down the chalk and instead took up placards and headed out to the car park and in front of the principal’s office where they protested for the most part of the first half of school. They were apparently protesting what they deemed as “the last straw”. This came sometime after the Principal issues 12 teachers with letters saying that they were absent on Teacher’s Professional Day, when in fact they were at a workshop put on by the Teacher’s Union. The principal is claiming that he received no verification of their attendance and the letter included something about docking their pay and some other crap.
Some of the teachers wore placards which said something about Intimidation, Harassment and spying, and when I asked one of the teachers where all of this stuff was going from she told me it was the principal. And from what I understand this was one of the many things that lead to the teachers taking industrial action today. The teachers also said that the morale of the school had dropped every since the current Principal took up his current office.
And there was a record number of 13 fights, beat downs and would have been fights, and I go to a school where we don’t even see that much fights in an entire school year, yet it all happened in one day.
As school gossip has it, it looks as if the teachers are wanting the principal along with another teacher fired. And as the student’s council is saying if the teacher is fired the students will have their say and we will be having a sit in and refuse to go to classes. However no one really cares what happens to the principal.
Okay today me and some of my friends were playing around and we were trying to put ice down each others backs and stuff like that for the fun of it. I was iced by this girl so I chased her around until I finally caught her and was able to ice her back. But shortly after I iced her she started hyperventilating at first we thought she was trying to send us on a guilt trip, but then we soon realised that she wasn’t playing. So we sat her down and tried to calm her down and see if we could get her breathing to slow down, but our attempts proved futile.
So I decided that we should take her down to the office against her will but for her safety. There her records were pulled to see if she suffered from anything like asthma but she did not, so this started to really worry us. Eventually we took he to the Guidance Counselor’s office and tried there, her breathing at times would slow down and then like when people enter the room or for no apparent reason it would start right back up again, I must say this was really scary for us. As we didn’t know what the hell was going on with her, hell who wouldn’t be scared if their friend was in the state she was in.
So then the school called her parents and eventually her sister came to pick her up, but they took her to the clinic nearby, which I felt that they should have done when we first brought her in and not wait until 1/2 hour later to take her. Damn. So she goes to the clinic and they are able to stabilise her to the point where she was speaking again, because she was unable to speak earlier. But the people at the clinic told her sister and the Counselor to take her to the hospital ASAP as it was much more serious than hyperventilating and they also wanted to do some x rays and other stuff on her.
It was a relief when she came on the net and told me that she was feeling better.
