Trouble in the staffroom

13/11/2008 by April First.

There has been trouble in the staff room. The handful of teachers who felt that they stood up against the occupying forces, are refusing to talk to or work with the teachers who just carried on as normal during the occupation, obeying orders and doing what they were told. The former group (those who supposedly stood up to Ms Bland and her gang), have now called themselves The Resistance – although I think there was little sign of it during the occupation.

There is even greater problem with a handful of “fraternisers” – the teachers who met up with the occupying forces outside of school, or who worked closely with them in school. Indeed the police turned up today asking for a list of everyone in the school, on the grounds that the houses of some of the “fraterniser” teachers had been daubed with white paint.

A group of revolutionary activists within the school has formed a committee, which seems to be in a continuous meeting in the staffroom, which is demanding constitutional reform. And several teachers who left during the occupation have returned only to find that their jobs have been taken by others who are among the “fraternisers”. There has been vigorous debate, heated exchanges and a certain amount of pushing and shoving which has greatly amused the pupils.

Overall it is a trifle horrible in the staffroom, and seems as if virtually no one is talking to anyone else. However rather amusingly the teachers are so wound up in their own world, none of them seem to recognise that a significant part of the undermining of the activities of Ms Bland and her coterie took place in the school office. I’m actually rather proud of that.

On the downside they all come into the office and talk to us all day long, just to get away from the in-fighting in the staffroom.

In their defence those who worked in the school and co-operated with the occupying forces say that by not doing anything to annoy those who wanted to implement the New Tactic, and the Norman Tradition, say they were “biding time”, to allow a rescue to be mounted by the Department of cushions and soft furnishings.

It seems like a bit of a tall story to me.

There was no sign of Havoc Blythe today. I do hope the power hasn’t gone to his head. I’m still waiting to find out what he meant by the painting and the books being at the heart of the issue.

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