As most of you probably didn't notice, it's the second Wednesday of the month. What significance does this hold? Well, until this year, the second Wednesday of the month was reserved for Activity Days, days where the school day started at 8:18, with the time from 7:40-8:18 devoted to club meetings. We haven't had one yet this year; according to Mr. White, allowing Activity Days to continue would be akin to letting cars drive over a bridge that was about to fall (I've spent two months trying to make sense of this analogy. If you understand what he was trying to say there, please email pioneer.uncovered@gmail.com).
Of course, he was trying to save face; does anyone remember the Ann Arbor News photographers who followed him around early in the school year? Those same photographers got a tip about the nature of Activity Day and wanted to take pictures of that. Mr. White started asking around among the teachers, and they all told him that having those pictures in the paper would not be good for publicity. So he canceled Activity Day and got the paper to take pictures of him (without his state prison-style PA system) and serve the Kool-Aid to the community.
Now, we all know that maybe Activity Day wasn't always used the way it was supposed to be used. Mostly, students slept in or hung out in the halls doing homework. But honestly, what was so wrong about that? Sometimes students just need a way to get ready for the day, kind of like Advisory in middle school. We just need to chill and talk to our friends and do homework. Doing that one time a month wasn't so bad.
Alas, so far this year, Mr. White has shown off his immense fear of students being in hallways. So if we need to protest anything. . .you know what to do.
2 comments:
when did he make the bridge simile?
I believe he also used it in a more public setting than this, but he used it during an interview outside his office, with a half-full room of people listening.
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