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I thought I might have been fancy today, but I was not. Maybe next week. It was as well I did not.
Before doing any such thing I had intended to talk with the head teacher of my course. Despite the support of anti-discrimination laws here, still I thought it advisable to give the staff some advance notice. My suspicion is that administrations seldom take well to being suddenly surprised.
Although much delayed, last week I made enquiry via the school website about the head teacher's staff email address with the aim of contacting him before resuming class. The lack of response to this was a contributing factor in my decision not to follow through with my plans for today.
I was not sure what I was going to do. Maybe put this off until next year. Maybe try talking to him after class. If I could think what to say. Except when class was starting he addressed me by name and mentioned my attempt to get in touch with him over the holiday, asking if I wanted to talk with him then or perhaps a bit later.
So after much hesitation and pausing I explained that I would appreciate a lack of objection to presenting more explicitly female in future and he said it would be no problem, even if he had wanted to make it so. I gave him permission to inform the rest of the library teaching staff.
Shortly after, he left for his break and Q was the first student to return to the classroom. I remarked that I had just taken steps to ensure there would be no administrative freaking out if I were to show up in class and we joked a bit about the flappability (lack thereof, rather) of a particular teacher. Then I straightened the misaligned table between us and the conversation turned to OCD not being a problem if it is not actually acted upon to a significant degree (i.e. Q had specifically not being straightening the table, therefore she was not having a problem with any compulsion to do so [unless I was having a totally different conversation]).
So. Did something just happen?
Before doing any such thing I had intended to talk with the head teacher of my course. Despite the support of anti-discrimination laws here, still I thought it advisable to give the staff some advance notice. My suspicion is that administrations seldom take well to being suddenly surprised.
Although much delayed, last week I made enquiry via the school website about the head teacher's staff email address with the aim of contacting him before resuming class. The lack of response to this was a contributing factor in my decision not to follow through with my plans for today.
I was not sure what I was going to do. Maybe put this off until next year. Maybe try talking to him after class. If I could think what to say. Except when class was starting he addressed me by name and mentioned my attempt to get in touch with him over the holiday, asking if I wanted to talk with him then or perhaps a bit later.
So after much hesitation and pausing I explained that I would appreciate a lack of objection to presenting more explicitly female in future and he said it would be no problem, even if he had wanted to make it so. I gave him permission to inform the rest of the library teaching staff.
Shortly after, he left for his break and Q was the first student to return to the classroom. I remarked that I had just taken steps to ensure there would be no administrative freaking out if I were to show up in class and we joked a bit about the flappability (lack thereof, rather) of a particular teacher. Then I straightened the misaligned table between us and the conversation turned to OCD not being a problem if it is not actually acted upon to a significant degree (i.e. Q had specifically not being straightening the table, therefore she was not having a problem with any compulsion to do so [unless I was having a totally different conversation]).
So. Did something just happen?
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