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... if you can stand the irony of my boss handing out the "Are You an Educator or a Bully?" paper at our meeting today.

This is the second time in one year we, as a staff, have been handed this form created by Linda Starr in 2003. To me it is a slap in the face, because I do not believe I am a bully to my students, or that the standout colleagues I work with are bullies.. and yet there are people on campus who bully not only their kids, but their colleagues too on a daily basis. Those people should be dealt with by "privately counseling" and an adminstrator who can "diffuse disruptions with humor". Um, yeah. That would require that your leader actually not be a bully. Just because he isn't aggressive, doesn't mean he doesn't bully or manipulate people, and this whole thing is a shad hypocritical.

For my principal to hand this out with comments printed on it like "bullies humiliate" or "bullies make examples of those with bad behavior" really sticks in my craw. What kind of leader hands this out arbitrarily and makes some excuse that this is his "best example of what a good educator is"? Not to mention the best analogy he could come up with is that SCJ Douglas was asked to define "pornography" and he couldn't stating, "but I know it when I see it". Somehow the comparison was a bit off.

Really? What did he do, clean out his desk and find this form from year ago and think, "hey I'll copy this for today's meeting"... on unauthorized colored, one-sided printed paper, no less. Geez!

In the words of Judi Dench as QE1: "too late! too late!"

* At what point did apologies become the go-to speech of celebrities? Look Kanye... you have done little to promote any cause you have spoken about because you do not think before you speak; you are incapable of intelligent speech or of making an argument for your case. You can not spout your opinions without fact and ruin a young girl's moment in the spotlight and then blow out some half-assed sorry as if it excuses your lack of class.

Poor Taylor Swift. For the remainder of her life, a special moment in her personal history will be saddled with disappointment because of the lack of personal judgment shown by this one stupid individual. "I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO sorry?" How immature.

And you know what, I don't give a crap how much Hennessey you drank on the red carpet. Stop your excuses. Stop your misplaced self-importance. Stop your racially motivated attacks on other people because you feel that you represent an entire race of people and/or the music industry through your synthesized, computer enhanced vocals. You disgust me with your overblown ego. Whoa-ho Mr. "I'm the next Michael Jackson". Oh. Hell. No. For all of his bizarre antics, Jackson would never have treated someone in the manner you did last evening.

Kudos to Beyonce Knowles... you are a shining example of how to conduct yourself- publicly or personally. No one deserves the humiliation that Swift faced last night, and your grace in accepting your award and stepping aside to make way for someone coming up in your footsteps is admirable. You handled the moment with humility and charity, and have made me more of a fan for it.

I was not kidding about unsyncing you from my ipod, Kanye. Good riddance. How ironic that you wrote a song about someone being "heartless". Perhaps in your "time off" to reflect on how you can "improve" yourself, you can listen to your own lyrics and get some insight into how to behave like a human. What a douche.