Whew!

Gotta stop talking to certain people.  The head of the science department took me aside, privately, to ask about an encounter I had with one of the assistant principals.  I had shared that, in confidence, with the head of the discipline committee.  Now it seems it's common knowledge.

I had made a general statement, that the office staff and one assistant heard. when I went to the office to request a referral form when a student came into my classroom and threatened one of the students in my class.  At first, they didn't want to give the form to me, saying they didn't have any. I was unconvinced and told them that they can talk all they want about "soaring" (we heard it every morning) but if teachers aren't supported then it won't happen.

They gave me a copy of an old referral form.  The district has yet to issue new ones.
Those who gossip WITH you will gossip ABOUT you.  I had hoped I had left this kind of thing behind.  Seemingly not.

Discipline is apparently weak at CLMS, but I've been through this before.  I will not let it  hijack my efforts in the classroom and I will not get myself into the middle of disputes.  I let myself be drawn into that in my early years. No more.

And they don't.  The right wing had no real use for "religion" from the beginning.

They just want the power, the money and the votes it brings them. Too many "Christians" are dumb enough to fall into their trap.

Radical elements of the right are preying on them and most don't even know it.

They lure them under their spell with abortion and gay rights issues, not to mention gun rights. Meantime, they are picking their proverbial pockets with so-called "tax reform," justifying paying them starvation wages while the price of nearly everything goes up and threatening to torpedo their future financial security by disabling both medicare and social security, not to mention depriving them of decent healthcare coverage, all in the name of protecting the profits of the insurance moguls and big Pharma.  What's disturbing is that they don't even see the need to hide their true intentions anymore, so delusional are many in our culture.

Madness.