Greetings!
One thing in life is that no one is an island and when people think that they can do it all alone, that's when they start to have problem not only with others but with those that are around them, most especially those that are working with them, or those that are in their neighbourhood. Although, I too don't like when people poke their nose into others affairs, but it wouldn't be good enough when I think I can do it all alone.
Like my Principal, Mrs. Adisa, she always think that she can do things all alone without the support of others around her and just because of this, she thinks too much of herself and look down on others, this woman would be like,
“I am the superior here and I don't need the help of advice from you people.”
She's used to saying this all the time and people have known her for her choice of words and not only that, for her body language, people have equally known her and they they have put in her place and one thing is that, if you don't want to have problem with her, you must just let her be.
So, there was an open day for that matter where parents used to give their Ward's teacher gift for taking good care of their children for and after which the teacher will check their notebooks and also tell the parents about their Ward's performances.
So, on this particular day, the principal decided to hold a meeting with the parents and in the course of their meeting, she rose up and said to the parents,
“ Good morning parents, how are you all doing?” “ We are all doing fine,” the parents responded. “Okay, as you all know we are having our open day today, please, do not give any of the teachers any gift whatsoever,” she said. “Okay ma,” the parents answered.
However, one of the parents who was not happy with the decision of the principal stood up and raised his hand and thank God, he was given the go ahead to say what he wanted to say and in his comment, the man said,
“Good morning Mrs. Principal and my fellow parents, what mama just said is not something that I will buy and this is because, as parents we are not being forced to give gifts to our Ward's teacher, Afterall, we are grown up people and I think we are matured enough to know our left from the right and also, none of the teachers have ever forced us to give them anything. All we do is to appreciate them for taking care of our Ward's for us. So, what I will say is that, our mummy, the indefatigable principal, please allow us to do the needful ma.”
When the principal had heard this, she got angry and her countenance changed, but one thing was that, since the issue was between her and one of the parents, she could not say anything then to agree to the demand of the man. I wouldn't have known all that transpired in her meeting with the parents if not that I was present at the meeting.
So, after the meeting, the open day of a thing started and all the parents started coming to us, I mean we the teachers one after the other and thank God, the parents yielded to one of their own advice and they were giving us to the gift they had brought to the school when the they came in.
On this particular day, I was given enough gifts that I was even thinking of how to carry everything home. The parents really did well with the way they shared the gifts among the teachers. I think they were well prepared for the day.
However, while the open day was still on, a circular was being carried around by the messenger of the school and the content of the circular was that there was going to be a meeting after the open day.
So, immediately after the open day, we the staff members gathered ourselves at her office and it was there that she questioned us on why we should have collected the gifts from the parents and since we had known her for her trouble, we decided not to say anything but to be looking at her, after she had expressed her minds, we all apologised to her, but she would not be pleased with our apologies.
At the end of everything, she asked everyone to submit our gift to her office which we did. She seized our gift and none of us could say a word.
But, thank God her retirement was around the corner, so, what we were waiting for was that she would retire from active service and by then, we would be able to claim our gift and on her retirement day, none of us showed up. Although we were all invited, we had decided not to go. We didn't even give her any gift as we used to do for those that are to retire.
So, the following day, when we got to school to carry our gift, what we saw was shocking as this woman had packed everything on that very day of her retirement and till today, we have not gotten back our gift, all our efforts to get the gift back proved abortive.
Thanks for reading.
Picture sourced from metaAi.
