At my school, it's a running joke that
if a decision is made by administration, it will get changed in no
time. You can count on it. We might be told to tighten up on
enforcing the dress code on Monday, then we'll be told Wednesday to
ease up and concentrate on 'the important things'. The following
week, when the kids are starting to look like MTV video stars,
suddenly it's important to jump on that dress code again. You can get
whiplash trying to keep up with the shifts in policy. And that's just
one example. We've been given contradictory instructions about the
school discipline plan, RTI procedures, and most anything else you
can imagine. My favorite is when we get nailed for not doing
something correctly, after following the only instructions we were
provided, because the new expectation was never communicated to us.
We have to constantly ask questions to clarify exactly what someone
wants us to do, because it changes frequently and without notice.
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