March 6, 2018 "The Emails!"

Like all facets of my life I am a selective replier. Yes, I screened your call, text and email. You ask me about it..."man, I didn't see it." Deny, deny, deny so you don't have to reply! That's my motto. I wish people lived their life like this as well. School emails get real funky because they can be audited. So you have to come correct. If I see you marked it high importance or with a read receipt I either won't open or will cancel the receipt anyways so why bother? Anyways, the reason for this rant is a deadline has passed on some silly assignments that they make teachers do and throw up on the wall to demonstrate how great we are as teachers...(I mean look either trust that I'm great or not but all this prove your love to me nonsense is dumb.) Ok, right. The deadline has passed. Who cares? Not I said the cat (me). I'm the cat. The Bleck Pentha. Ok, Ok, Ok back to the story... An email was sent about this missed deadline. What did I do? I'm not sure because I haven't seen it yet. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* However, a colleague decides to respond to the email....and asked WHEN WAS THE DEADLINE!!! *Gasp, flag on the play!* Girl it's past due! You should have participated with this for the 7th grade team so how did you not know the deadline. But that's not the point. You put this in writing that you are unaware of a passed deadline....and REPLIED ALL. Now, I have two emails to conveniently not see.

This instance might seem minute but education emails are always a doozy. The audacity in most of them and the sheer amount of dry snitching has disturbed my spirit. I mean sometimes I purposely go through verbal communication so there is no trace and people just putting all kinds of dirty laundry on front street. I'm especially disturbed by this incident because the reason for this deadline will fall on me and not the fact that I got people on the team that -...basically I'm going have to go full Denzel at the end of Training Day and I would hate to have to do that.

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