Is an ovature what happens when you play the overture with your lady parts?
Also, teachers can get away with quite a lot in terms of decoration, especially at the high school level. When I worked as a janitor, one of my regular classrooms had a life-sized Edward Cullen cutout behind the door, near the teacher's desk, all year round. My mother, the band teacher, has simply plastered her room with stuffed animals, Duck Tape, Sound of Music and Mary Poppins stuff, Sesame Street dolls, pictures of her playing her horn, etc.
If Cast (because fuck if I can remember the character's name, and they're the same person anyway) is talking about her personal area, it's not entirely out of the question for it to be covered in her personal crap. That goes double for special area teachers, like librarians, who teach out in the general area but have an office in a different room, or reading teachers, who often teach out of little more than a closet. Sure, most teachers are more restrained and realize that the classroom is the place to display their students' stuff, but I have known some that were this obnoxious in their decorating.
I think teaching kids “Guinevere's a slut” warrants getting a talk from the principal! This, also, she might be able to get away with, depending on a number of factors. I knew an elementary teacher once who had her class look up the definition of a prostitute because she overheard them discussing what it was, because they heard it on television or something. They were appropriately horrified. I also knew plenty of high school teachers that would swear and/or insult their students on a regular basis (I had a classmate whose last name was Darling; one teacher admitted to sitting him next to the light switch just so he could say "Darling, the lights" whenever we watched a movie or took notes) and they're not above letting their personal beliefs slip into their lesson plans.
That having been said, it's a very delicate game. You have to be very careful who you say things to and how you say them. A literary teacher could get away with saying that Guinevere is a slut while just shooting the shit with a couple of trusted seniors, honor students who would recognize and appreciate the joke and keep her secret. She might be able to get away with it in lecture depending on how she phrased it and who was in the class. She would not be able to get away with putting it in her syllabus.
But, as with all Suefic, the problem is context. My mom? She's worked in that school, in that room, for over thirty years. It's not really an issue of her personality exploding all over the place as much as it is thirty years of Mama Acolyte building up all over the walls. The teacher who asked her class to look up prostitute? She had one foot in the retirement plan already and was tenured to high heaven, not to mention that her experience told her exactly how the students would respond. The other teachers were in general No Fucks mode, and taught classes consisting of 16-18 y/o students, where you can typically get away with that sort of stuff if you're careful.
I guess what I'm saying is that Shannon Cast here is acting like a teacher with a lot of power and clout in the district, and she's still treading a very dangerous line. It would look to the casual observer like she doesn't care about her job very much, or that she knows they won't fire her for whatever reason (probably because she's a Sue).
Incidentally (providentially), I'm reading Patricia Briggs' Iron Kissed, and Mercy engages in a spirited debate about Arthurian mythology, and I believe her exact words were "Guinevere was a loser".
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Date: 2015-03-03 11:20 pm (UTC)Also, teachers can get away with quite a lot in terms of decoration, especially at the high school level. When I worked as a janitor, one of my regular classrooms had a life-sized Edward Cullen cutout behind the door, near the teacher's desk, all year round. My mother, the band teacher, has simply plastered her room with stuffed animals, Duck Tape, Sound of Music and Mary Poppins stuff, Sesame Street dolls, pictures of her playing her horn, etc.
If Cast (because fuck if I can remember the character's name, and they're the same person anyway) is talking about her personal area, it's not entirely out of the question for it to be covered in her personal crap. That goes double for special area teachers, like librarians, who teach out in the general area but have an office in a different room, or reading teachers, who often teach out of little more than a closet. Sure, most teachers are more restrained and realize that the classroom is the place to display their students' stuff, but I have known some that were this obnoxious in their decorating.
I think teaching kids “Guinevere's a slut” warrants getting a talk from the principal!
This, also, she might be able to get away with, depending on a number of factors. I knew an elementary teacher once who had her class look up the definition of a prostitute because she overheard them discussing what it was, because they heard it on television or something. They were appropriately horrified. I also knew plenty of high school teachers that would swear and/or insult their students on a regular basis (I had a classmate whose last name was Darling; one teacher admitted to sitting him next to the light switch just so he could say "Darling, the lights" whenever we watched a movie or took notes) and they're not above letting their personal beliefs slip into their lesson plans.
That having been said, it's a very delicate game. You have to be very careful who you say things to and how you say them. A literary teacher could get away with saying that Guinevere is a slut while just shooting the shit with a couple of trusted seniors, honor students who would recognize and appreciate the joke and keep her secret. She might be able to get away with it in lecture depending on how she phrased it and who was in the class. She would not be able to get away with putting it in her syllabus.
But, as with all Suefic, the problem is context. My mom? She's worked in that school, in that room, for over thirty years. It's not really an issue of her personality exploding all over the place as much as it is thirty years of Mama Acolyte building up all over the walls. The teacher who asked her class to look up prostitute? She had one foot in the retirement plan already and was tenured to high heaven, not to mention that her experience told her exactly how the students would respond. The other teachers were in general No Fucks mode, and taught classes consisting of 16-18 y/o students, where you can typically get away with that sort of stuff if you're careful.
I guess what I'm saying is that Shannon Cast here is acting like a teacher with a lot of power and clout in the district, and she's still treading a very dangerous line. It would look to the casual observer like she doesn't care about her job very much, or that she knows they won't fire her for whatever reason (probably because she's a Sue).
Incidentally (providentially), I'm reading Patricia Briggs' Iron Kissed, and Mercy engages in a spirited debate about Arthurian mythology, and I believe her exact words were "Guinevere was a loser".