I was saying goodbye to all my jailbirds and my principal comes in as they file out. He asks if he can talk to me for a minute. So I am thinking to myself, I know I haven't been into teaching lately and I have been on the computer emailing cub scout stuff a lot and oh yeah, last Friday I showed a movie to the kids (it pertained to what we were studying, I'm not that bad) and I worked on a newletter for scouts all day and then printed it out and copied a bunch of copies for the weekend.
"Yeah sure" I say. I sit down and think, Okay here it comes.
He starts out by saying, "So how was your day?" Oh man I am IN for it!! "okay" I reply.
He then goes into saying that he just came back from the surgeon about his neck and he has a titanium plate fusing three vertibrae together and one of the screws has broken off and it lodged somewhere else and that bone is growing around it and the bone is pressing on a nerve which is not only giving him pain but also making numbness in his arm. I had known that he has been going to doctors and having tests done and that he is in pain sometimes.
He goes on to say that he needs surgery to correct it and that it is going to be a relatively easy surgery, only 3 hours long, but it is a long recovery. About 4 months!
At this point I am not sure why he has chosen to dump this on me but I continue to nod my head and I respond, "yuck".
He says, "yeah, yuck! So I am going to need someone to fill in for me while I am gone." I start to think okay, Mr. **** will step in as he is put in charge when our principal goes out of the office or is out sick from time to time.
Then he says he was talking to our supervisor at the Department of Ed and her advice was to fill if possible from within instead of bringing another principal in from outside. She asked if there was anyone on staff who had administrative experience. He told her about me and my administrative experience running a private school.
So then just as I am thinking I am going to get reamed out for showing too many videos, he asks if I would be willing to fill in for him. He goes on to say that he is going to hire a long term sub for my position so I don't have to teach and be principal at the same time.
Yes, I will be teaching my best for the rest of the week.
3 comments:
Congrats! Sounds like a good little change!
~Nancy
wow. they are hiring a sub? that sounds like a sane place to work.
Oh WOW! That is very cool! I mean, that you are going to be filling in not about his neck, LOL!
Congrats!
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