Hail to the Chief

The principal at my school [who is new this year, and not making any friends... more on this another time...] is on crack. Here's the proof:

He made me ACTING PRINCIPAL in his absence tomorrow.

Holy crap.

So, in the morning today I had heard rumours that the principal was going to be asking me to do this, and I had already, in my mind, decided to "respectfully decline" the "offer". [The librarian (my buddy) had told me, "Oh, c'mon. You should just do it. You'd get to sit there all day and do nothing... and get paid a little extra for it."]

ME? Principal? This is my first year as a teacher - and not even a full-fledged teacher at this school. I don't know district policies, let alone what to do in any NUMBER of situations that might occur on school site. I'm completely clueless when it comes to ANY kind of school protocol. It's just not my job, and not anything that I've had to deal with in the past. Well, as I passed by the principal's office in the afternoon, he called me in and TOLD me that I would be filling in for him tomorrow. TOLD me. How the hell could I turn it down? He then proceeded to plan my whole day, even KNOWINGLY scheduling me for multiple things AT THE SAME TIME. Sure, it's only doing recess duties, and sitting in on rowdy classrooms while the meek music teacher is in them, but it looks like the secretary may be out sick tomorrow, so I will have to man the office all day, too. Oh, plus I'm scheduled to be in a classroom [subbing] for an hour at one point. I'm, literally, going to have to eat my lunch at 10:00am. Oh, wait, that's one of the times that I'm scheduled for recess AND office duty. Scratch that. I guess I'll be eating lunch at 9:30am.

PRAY that nothing goes wrong tomorrow.

The principal gave me his cell phone number, and told me to "not hesitate to call", but the last time he put someone else in charge and they tried to call him he "couldn't get cell phone reception..."

PRAY that the principal's cell phone gets good reception tomorrow.

P.S. I have a HUGE, growing list of things to write about here, and will hopefully commit some of them to bits&bytes this weekend...