New Year's

[alt_lucius]

It's a singular irony that one has less time to write and update, rather than more, when one is on holiday.

Of course, it helps to actually be on holiday, instead of constantly called upon to offer direction to people whom one would think ought to be able to guide themselves

Comments

[alt_mcgonagall]

Umbridge? What possible reason could she have for interrupting you?

Were I still teaching, I can well imagine spending more than a quarter-hour on a student - after all, one must vent one's feelings somehow. But none of the Board of Governors, as far as I know, are forced into contact with students for more than a few minutes at a time. Unless the student in question is a Governor's student, and of course those children's records need not be examined.

[alt_lucius]

You have no idea how ridiculous it was - trifling, really, and yet the resolution still required more than two hours' time. There are days I bitterly regret any involvement in politics whatsoever.

And as for extolling the virtues or expounding upon the ills of individual students, yes, were ours a staff meeting, for example, or the board of review to determine NEWT-level students, I could quite agree with you. For our purposes, however, the only conceivable reason to dwell on a particular record would be that the committee have not already reviewed them sufficiently. You know how I abhor such lack of preparation and the lax attitude toward responsibility that it implies.