Wishin' and Hopin' and Thinkin' and Prayin'

So the last like, 20 minutes of Professional Development before we break for the weekend and the last moments we are going to see each other before the kids come, our principal has us to the Pig Personality Test.
I don't know if you've heard of it, but I've done it about 20439439209 times. You draw a pig and then they tell you all these things about what that means about your life.
If you drew your pig at the top of the page that means you are positive and optimistic. If you drew it in the middle, you are a realist.

Now, I didn't see other people's drawings, but I've decided I'm probably one of the few people who drew my pig in the middle.

Let's get real here.
We spent the entire week before school starts playing games (I'm Hilarious Heather and you are Athletic Al!), debating the semantics of writing school mission statements (Should it say we FOSTER learning or ENCOURAGE learning?) and seen presentations on very obvious things (if a student misses a lot of school, they are in danger of dropping out.)

You know what we haven't done? Made decisions. Do we have locker assignments for any of the students? No. Do we know if there is a special schedule (extended homeroom) for the first day? No. Do we know what floor our students eat lunch on? No. Do we know what steps to take when someone doesn't follow all the rules we made up? No.

It might not seem like much, but those are the little things that add up to big things.
The problem is not that the staff is retarded. We aren't burnt out morons who just need a little pep to fix everything. Things aren't bad because we don't get along with each other. Things are bad because the CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE ANY CONSEQUENCES. Things are bad because there is MASS CONFUSION. Things are bad because we start each school year like we're opening for the first time and we're the first school to ever open.
"The kids just run wild in the hallway."

"Well, have you told them to stop?"

WELL I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!