when a child asks a question with an obvious answer, many people balk at them. so why then, is it ok for administration to ask silly questions and we are supposed to answer them with the utmost respect? take yesterday as an example:
i am in the office talking to the secretary about calendar events for may. it is the middle of first hour (literally the middle, 1st hour starts at 8:30 and ends ant 9:25, the time now is 9). my principal walks out of his office, looks at me and asks, very seriously i might add, “are you prepping now?”. i looked at him and thought before i spoke. if i hadn’t thought, my answer would have come out something like this “nah, i’ve left my kids in my classroom unsupervised at the opposite end of the building to come down here and talk to the secretary about putting events on next month’s calendar”. instead, i just said “yeah” with a tone that had to imply that i thought he was crazy for asking. then, he asked me what i was doing with my class during second hour. really, i teach CHOIR. what did he think my answer was gonna be? with an even more incredulous look on my face, i replied “singing”. he then said that he’d be stopping by to observe since he hadn’t done that all year (which he didn’t end up doing, oh well). can someone tell me why he didn’t just ask if today was a good day to come and observe my room? seems like that would have been an easier way to accomplish his goal.
must just be one of those weeks!!