Quiet As it is Kept...

I will talk to ANYONE. Especially someone who is new to our school.  Truth be told it is a hard place to be. Especially if you have come in the middle of the year.

We were just able to get a librarian. She has come from a school in an affluent side of town. She is a REALLY good librarian  and I know in my heart of hearts that if she were not surplussed and pretty much made to go where she was need we would not have been her first  second  millionth choice.

But she is here now.  So there!

Just so happened I walked into the library early one morning we got into a conversation. She mentioned that we were like 'no other place she had been'. She said she felt it would be a challenge (like most of us do) and that she would just have to buckle down and make it work. She did not use the words 'urban' or 'inner city' one time.

 I immediately liked her.

By chance I ran into her today and she mentioned that she had been having a hard time with her classes. She was recruiting teachers to stay in the library with there classes until she could get a better feel of the students.

I like my planning time.

Today when I went to pick my kids up she leaned over and whispered..."Thank you...this has been the most normal thing to happen to me all day."

I laughed.  " Not a problem."

What she did not know was I told those jokers that if I got a bad report back from her they were going to have a very short lunch and a VERY long punishment.  I don't like to be embarrassed.

Needless to say...everyone had a leisurely lunch