I'm going to be so bad at this...

I've realized I'm better at storytelling than story writing. But I will keep trying to document the insanity. We've had the first two days. I'm not in the trenches of the insanity like I was last year, but I'm still getting some. First of all, I share 12 desks with the neighboring teacher. My 4th period has to go over and get them from him, and then my last period returns them.
We have a huge overload of teachers (I guess anticipating all the teachers that will be quitting.) But the administrators are totally retarded about the schedule. They made out a schedule without ever seeing some of the teachers. So there are three teachers on the schedule (who have full class loads) that never showed up.
But instead of fixing all that, they just let it go (maybe it will fix itself?) So while some classess have 2 teachers, others have none. Teachers will walk their class to the next one, only to spend the next 20 minutes out in the hallway looking for someone to "cover" that class. They force subs to go all day without a break, mid-level administrators to cover classes, new teachers to give up their planning period...meanwhile, up to 10 teachers are "co-teaching."
One of the new teachers is in the hospital and she has the worst homeroom. I found one of her students roaming the hallway halfway through 1st period, and he told me they were up there by themselves, fighting. I told the principal, and she said, "oh yeah, I forgot." FORGOT? my ass would be chewed out if I made a mistake half that big. The worst class in the school, left to their own devices.
Our principal has implemented a ridiculous new discipline code, where basically you have to get approval from Congress to send a kid to the office. Meanwhile, she suspends kids for looking at her the wrong way. One of my best students got 3 weeks detention for having his shirt untucked in the lunchroom. However, if somebody stands up and throws a chair across the room and calls another kid an effin' N*****, then you better make sure you have documentation showing the interventions you used to prevent that type of behavior before you even think about writing them up.

oh, I guess once I get started, I DO have something to say. :)