Heh, I'm a baaaaaad person...I haven't updated since Tuesday *grin* But really, it's not like there's much to say anyway. More fires on Wednesday at almost the same time as Monday; Ball has been fined a fair bit of money. Apparently they caught the first guy, he's got a $25000 bond or something. I'm not entirely sure. Tonight's the homecoming game, we're playing against Kingwood (the only reason I know this is because we had to make a webpage about it in Webmastering o.O;;). Needless to say I'm not going. I'm assuming the Powderpuff game (I dunno if other schools have it; girls play football while guys cheer, etc) was Wednesday, even though the principal said we wouldn't have it this week...riiiight...Y'know, Dr. Trilica was a bit weird in some of what she did, but at least she stuck to what she said. Ms. Reume is great and all, more student-oriented, but she's less reliable. A lot of the time she'll say one thing and something else will happen. It's confusing *sigh*
Since I'm on the subject, here goes the principal rant. I didn't really care either way about Dr. Trilica, really. She was a cool person - I had the opportunity to meet her as a hardworking student in the halls in the morning, and then again at a lecture about the TAKS as a student who didn't really keep their parents up-to-date on school stuff. She was pretty nice. She understood what I said and meant both times, and wasn't all evil about it, which is something you don't always see in principals.
On the down side, she had the tardy tables and the ID fetish. If you weren't in before the bell rang, you were pretty much tardy because the security guards (and boy, did we have a lot - I think ten or fifteen) pretty much checked individual IDs. And then, when you were already late, you had to go get a tardy ticket. Again, more wasted time; it sometimes took ten minutes to get through the lines. And as mentioned above, there were quite a few police around, and we were pretty much barricaded into the lunch room during lunch (there weren't separate bells for releasing one lunch and calling in the next, so they kept us in so that there wouldn't be that many people in "alphabet lunch"). It kinda sucked, having to say "No, really, I'm just going to the library/restroom/talk to a teacher!" every time you tried to go do one of the above...
Now for Ms. Reaume. Not much else to say, really; she's laxed off on the ID thing, they're only required to get in, to go to the library, or to be in the halls during class time now, we don't have to wear them all the time anymore. Which is a good thing, since teachers don't have to check them during class. She's also gotten rid of the tardy tables. Another good thing. (Man, I was always terrified of being late, and for that reason exactly. That was the main thing that kept me from being tardy, really: I didn't wanna be seen with those slackers who stood in line for thirty minutes talking instead of being in class!) Now there's just a tardy sign-in sheet inside the door of every teacher's room. It's a lot more convenient. She also got rid of all but three police, which is hell when it comes to firedrills (we had ten fights and two foodfights the first day, and I think about seven the second) but it means you aren't always afraid of running into one just around the corner. There's less security during lunch, too. If you can sweet-talk your way around the teacher standing by the main door of the building, you can pretty much wander at will. (I don't bother; the library and restrooms suit my purposes just fine *grin*) All they ask is that you enter and leave through the front of the cafeteria so they can kind of keep an eye on how many people are going in and out; you know, the "head count" kinda thing. And like I said above, she's a lot more about the students than Dr. Trilica was. Dr. T was more "get everyone moving forward and keep the order," while Ms. R's more along the lines of "Keep the students happy and you keep the school happy."
Downside: As I also said above, Ms. R doesn't stick to her word as strictly as Dr. T. If the doctor said there wouldn't be a Powderpuff game Wednesday, there wouldn't be a Powderpuff game Wednesday. If she said the pep rally would start at 2:00, the pep rally started at 2:00. Ms. R, on the other hand... She said the Powderpuff game wouldn't be played until next week, if we held it at all this year; it continued almost on schedule. She said the pep rally would be over by the time the bell rang; those of us who sat on the bus instead of going were waiting for fifteen minutes before they finally released it. So it's basically a win/lose situation.
On a side note, I'm not quite sure what to think of the new superintendent's way of doing things, either. She's trying to improve the student-teacher relations and all that. So she's having the teachers refrain from writing people up - which IMO accounts for the fires - and meet students at the door and shake hands. Which, of course, means, that once one person gets sick it spreads like wildfire. This is the first year I've been sick before January, and I've already had two minor colds... There's one girl I've known for years that has a fairly weak immune system, she's been sick all year. And quite a few of the teachers have been sick lately, so I almost wouldn't be surprised if we have a few epidemics this year...
Anyway. Enough of that. I fell asleep last night without finishing this, so I'm just gonna post it as is *grin*
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