The occupation is over

09/11/2008 by April First.

Friday

They have gone.  All of them.  

Ms Bland, Mr Putin, and the whole gang who have been running the school.   Their offices have been cleared out, there are no emails from Ms Bland, no instructions.  

Mr Fixham appeared in the office, told us that he was taking over, and asked us to carry on as usual.

Bodger and Havoc Blythe came in and worked on the school’s central computer system for ten minutes before declaring it “clean” and saying that we could use it.

At midday, Mr Fixham sent a message saying that all rules and regulations issued under the previous regime were no longer valid.   “For example,” the message said, “it is not compulsory to call each other sir or ma’am.  Books which have been removed from the library and put in store can be returned to the shelves, and records which link pupil’s academic ability to their race are to be destroyed.”

Then after detailing other aspects of school life that were to “return to normal” in a moment of rare humour the note ended by saying that, “although all such regulations from the previous regime are rescinded, and although the regulation requiring everyone to smile while in the school buildings is included in this, it was perhaps the one positive achievement of the occupying forces, and anyone who wishes to smile at this juncture can be assured they will not be punished.”

We spent much of the rest of the day in debate.   This was the first time that anyone had acknowledged that the school had been “occupied”.

The question was, by whom?   And why?

And what now?

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