Previously, Part One: Sometimes You’re the Joker and Sometimes the Joke’s on You…
He didn’t hesitate to answer,“Absolutely!”
Now you’ll lose your job if someone finds out what happened!"
It was a dumb practical joke, and as a teacher, I was all about second chances.
I stayed until after midnight and got it done.
They looked great, and the shop was approved.
He caused a lot of trouble in that class.
He missed the entire next year.
I told her what I did and thought I handled it in-shop without escalating it.
She just kept smiling and listening.
And that was it.
That meant it was disciplinary.
I understood that three notes in my file were enough to fire me.
Under the teacher contract, I was given three days to dispute the charge/punishment…
When I arrived at the school in 2013, there wasn’t a plumbing shop.
I did it in under two.
I started as a .5 on the pay scale, which is half a paycheck.
I was excited to build a plumbing shop and program from scratch.
I told her I couldn’t do that.
He abruptly ended the meeting when he realized I wouldn’t back down.
I called the plumber on the permit and told him what the Principal wanted me to do.
He had a good laugh.
He suggested I take my students to the job site for ashow and tell,which I did.
A fucking rat who would do anything to avoid punishment.
I suspected she made a deal with him.
She’d let him off easy for destroying school property in exchange for information she could use against me…
I went to the police station and immediately requested a copy of the report.
It took over a week and several calls, but I eventually got a heavily redacted copy.
It had the look and smell of a cover-up.
I still have it.
Besides her current job as Director of CTE, what was in it for her?
To be continued…
*All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental…
