LISTEN LIBBYWhat's up with all these regulations: No posters on the walls? A dress code? A required, facist repressive Code of Conduct? A condescending principal who says, "Hi boys and girls, my name is libby, can you say respect." Yo libby, can you say "go back to kindergarten teaching?" What's up with censoring Dov's article in WestWord? Yo libby, if you're so into community, communication, respect, and a partnerships, than what's up with the power trip? In case you forgot, you are a principal not a iron fist dictator. By the way, principal means, according to Oxford: 1) first highest or foremost in importance or rank. but also 2) One who commits or is an accomplice to a crime 3) motivated by or based on moral or ethical principles. Somedting to think about Lib-Baby. Back to the article... What the fuck moral or ethical values do you have? Censorship? No Freedom of Expression? No respect visible. Maybe you forgot this too, it's the opening letter in the student handbook, "Together we can strive to build a multicultural community at West where each individual will show and receive respect for themselves, others and the environment. Respect is based on trust and I ask you to look at our first year together as a trust building experience .... Blah blah blah." Well, you fucked up. This was the first most of us heard about you and it sounded O.K. but what happened? Amnesia? Schizophrenia? Straight up lie? There has to be an excuse. We hope. Lets look at this letter. Lets see here, you a 'multicultural community' O.K., we think that sounds fine. Craig Moss wore his El-Haj Malik El-Shabazz hat and African print shirt. Cool. Ben Granby wore his nifty Civil War hat that meant more to him than life itself. Cool. Siobhan Eikel wore her Irish shirts and clothes. Cool. Etcetera. Boy oh boy, it sure feels more multicultural now ... No Malcom hats, no "Kiss me I'm Irish" hats, no hats at all but golly, at least there are no gangs. Whatever. How stupid are you? Can you honestly think for the smallest part of a micro-mini-nano-second that gangs are so dumb that they cant come up with new signs? It you're that stupid, and that's really stupid, but if you are that stupid, do us a favor and resign. Colucci wasn't that dumb. Almost but not quite. Strike one; back to the letter. "Individuals will show and receive respect for themselves, other and the environment." Respect ourselves, again that sounds nice. Too bad you didn't help this either. Strike two. Receive respect. Beauty concept. Well you blew this too. You started by not respecting ou rexpressions. No hats, no coats, no large bags, no posters, no club announcements, no funny skits, no respect. Well maybe I'll go introduce myself to Libby and see what kind of nice person would be so respectful. In three weeks. At least we know where your priorities are. Check out an issue of Fortune from a couple months back, it said that 95 percent of top leaders such as "CEO's, managers, principals and presidents" lead with an open door polity by having lower officials (Lee and Jack) attend paper pushing meetings while they stayed in their offices with a mostly clean schedule and talked to the workers and students to feel the pulse of the people they are leading. How many god damn bureaucratic meeting on phy ed safety do you need to attend? Maybe you could talk to some of your students. No, on second thought that might show respect! We wouldn't want that now would we libby. The crowd goes wild... strike three called... have a seat babe... Let's skip down to the trust part and review the score. Hmmmm, I guess you really didn't do anything you said you would. Hmmmm, you did pull a good Hitler-Lenin-Shah-Castro-Dictator impression though. Yeah, you're the exact the person I want to talk to. Your loving student body.
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