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She calls students all kinds of names like fat and porky and even ugly. Why is this body shamer allowed in the SFWA?
Earlier I made the mistake of remarking that it had been a long time since I'd last needed to call for a senior member of staff to deal with a difficult situation for me, but I guess this was tempting fate.
At lunchtime I heard an ominous thudding noise from the computer suite and scurried in there to investigate. A fat ugly kid called Connor was bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, in a style similar to that thing Steve McQueen does in 'The Great Escape'.
I ordered Connor out. He looked at me in wide-eyed disbelief.
"You can't send me out, just like that" he said, confidently.
"Oh, I can, and I am" I said, grimly.
"No, Miss" he continued "You haven't followed proceedure. You have to ask me not to do something, follow it up with a formal warning and then you can only send me out if I do it again"
"Connor, you have to be kidding. You do not bounce tennis balls off the walls in school computer suites, or libraries for that matter, out you go before I put you on report"
I am rapidly losing it, as is Connor who is going dangerously red in his porky fat face.
"You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures" he plonks himself down in the nearest chair and folds his arms.
I take a deep breath
"Connor, I am asking you to leave the library. Now. Are you refusing to obey a reasonable request from a member of staff?"
I can do 'proceedures' too, it seems.
"You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. " chants Connor, infuriatingly.
"Youhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceeduresYouhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceeduresYouhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceedures"
"YOUHAVENORIGHTYOUDIDN'TFOLLOWPROCEEDURESOUHAVENORIGHTYOUDIDN'TFOLLOWPROCEEDURES"
I summon the Senior who is on lunchtime patrol, who removes Connor, who continues to yell at me even as he is being bundled out of the doors.
As a result I have to fill in an Incident Report Form which causes Connor to win a formal detention as well as a week ban from the library.
The application of our school's formal proceedures suits me fine, thanks.
- November 10th, 2009, 04:11 pm
In which I fail to follow proceedures...
Earlier I made the mistake of remarking that it had been a long time since I'd last needed to call for a senior member of staff to deal with a difficult situation for me, but I guess this was tempting fate.
At lunchtime I heard an ominous thudding noise from the computer suite and scurried in there to investigate. A fat ugly kid called Connor was bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, in a style similar to that thing Steve McQueen does in 'The Great Escape'.
I ordered Connor out. He looked at me in wide-eyed disbelief.
"You can't send me out, just like that" he said, confidently.
"Oh, I can, and I am" I said, grimly.
"No, Miss" he continued "You haven't followed proceedure. You have to ask me not to do something, follow it up with a formal warning and then you can only send me out if I do it again"
"Connor, you have to be kidding. You do not bounce tennis balls off the walls in school computer suites, or libraries for that matter, out you go before I put you on report"
I am rapidly losing it, as is Connor who is going dangerously red in his porky fat face.
"You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures" he plonks himself down in the nearest chair and folds his arms.
I take a deep breath
"Connor, I am asking you to leave the library. Now. Are you refusing to obey a reasonable request from a member of staff?"
I can do 'proceedures' too, it seems.
"You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. You have no right. You didn't follow proceedures. " chants Connor, infuriatingly.
"Youhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceeduresYouhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceeduresYouhavenorightyoudidn'tfollowproceedures"
"YOUHAVENORIGHTYOUDIDN'TFOLLOWPROCEEDURESOUHAVENORIGHTYOUDIDN'TFOLLOWPROCEEDURES"
I summon the Senior who is on lunchtime patrol, who removes Connor, who continues to yell at me even as he is being bundled out of the doors.
As a result I have to fill in an Incident Report Form which causes Connor to win a formal detention as well as a week ban from the library.
The application of our school's formal proceedures suits me fine, thanks.