Carry on as usual

I am in deepest shock. 

I am utterly aghast.

I simply cannot believe it.

Mr Fixham has told us to “carry on as usual”.

As I said to Havoc Blythe, Janice, Binky and the rest – we have just found out that our school has been occupied by some group of nutters calling themselves an Academy.  They have now all suddenly left – and we still have no idea what their great scheme was or is.  A significant number of people in the school “carried on as usual” during the occupation without batting an eyelid even over the requirements to record the children’s race – and now the Deputy Head (who is calling himself the Acting Head) has said, “carry on as usual”.

The feeling in the office – and for once I think this is reflected in at least part of the staff room – is that we would like to know what happened, how it happened, who let it happen, and also why it was left to the office staff, with the support of Bodger and Havoc Blythe, to operate any form of resistance.  In fact, now I look back on it, we were the Resistance.  The capital R is correct in this situation.

Of course some teachers took Mr Fixham at his word and came straight into the office and asked me to photocopy some pages for them in the next half hour, at least five registers clearly had errors in terms of recording who was in school and who not, and three other teachers popped in to use our phone for a “private call”.

I was beginning to lose my normal calm and cool “I can cope with anything” nature, when Havoc Blythe popped in with one of the works that has been adorning the school’s corridors, of art under his arm.

“That was the one good thing the last regime gave us,” I said when I saw him.  “You aren’t taking that away are you?”

“I am just a little suspicious about it,” he said.  “I’ll have it back by tomorrow.”

And with that he left.

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