We had a staff meeting this morning in the lecture hall with all of the district suits. My student teacher and I took seats in the back, and when I saw our Superintendent at the front of the room, I whispered to my student teacher,

This is the closest I’ve ever been to him.1

Then he started the informational video and took a seat in the one empty chair in the entire lecture hall – which was right next to me. 2

If you’ve been following my story for a few years, you’re gonna love what happened next:

We shook hands and introduced ourselves… but then he looks at me and asks:

Are you a student here?3

1. It was actually the closest I’d ever been to ANY superintendent, past or present [↩]
2. He was actually nice and asked if he could sit next to me lol [↩]
3. He told me afterwards that he was joking. Actually, it turns out that my student teacher’s mother works in his office, so by association, he already knew of me. When my student teacher went up afterwards to say hello to him, she told him that I was her supervising teacher, and he was like, “But he’s a student!” He did explain that he was 18 when he started teaching — not sure how that works out, now that I think about it — but that he got the same kind of flack all the time back then, so it’s all good. [↩]