Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

We had the meeting of the Office of Student Affairs team earlier, although we do not want to call it that. Although right now most of their budget is under my approval, I would like to think of them as independent, that is, until the dean tells me to rally quote my people unquote.

Anyway, there was no new business at the meeting, just updates on the no smoking campaign, the dress code to turn into the school uniform, the drug testing, the new schedule for the graduation, the discussion series for this term, the bullying case, and the discipline office update.

The guidance counselor said it was nice to have a meeting that was not all work but having sounding boards.

What I did not know was that afterwards, there would be another part of the job that would haunt me.

Apparently the same parent who went here two weeks ago to complain about the bullying of her boy now went straight to the office of the president and harangued the secretary about the drug testing letter.

Just as expected, she thought that it was targeting her son, because she insisted her boy was clean.

She also berated the secretary for not being able to give her the answers that she wanted, and insisted that as a former dean herself she knows that the procedure given to us by the commission on higher education was wrong.

Well, probably she was a dean before December of last year, which was when we attended the summons for the drug testing.

So the secretary of the president chewed out the secretary of the office of student affairs, after the parent went to our office as well.

Maybe it was good that my secretary did not tell her where we were, but maybe also not so good.

Anyway, I hope she was placated in the student affairs office, because there she would have known that the letter was sent out to everybody and that there was no guarantee that her son would be picked.

Since there was a question in the letter (underlined) as to how the randomization would work, which would be done by the commission on higher education personnel and not by the school observers.

When I told the guidance counselor about it later, she said that it gave her an idea as to why the mother was bothering.

Yeah, I know the mother is overprotective, but it was not as if her son was singled out by his behavior as being an addict.

Besides, really, if these parents have a problem with the school, why do they not just take their kids out?

Is it the kids themselves who do not want to be transferred? So who really has the power and who is just crying helplessly? And who will suffer in the end if the school turns out to be mediocre?

Session 2927 should get used to the roller coaster ride of escalating then diminishing work troubles. Class dismissed.