A modest proposal

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It's obviously a job that nobody wants. Since I started with debate back in the mid-90s, I have gone through more principals than I have debaters. This is unusual for a debate coach. Hen Hud is the only school I know of where the yearbook comes with those little white pieces of paper like a Playbill telling you that tonight the part of The Principal is Being Played by —. In the case at hand, Mr. Mackin, according to the local paper, will be Acting Principal.

My suggestion is that we just admit the obvious and use day laborers. There's plenty of them in Peekskill, near the post office, and we could pick one up every day and pay a good minimum wage and then we wouldn't be so suprised every day when there's a new person in there. During the busy season, we could pick up a couple. The school district would still save money on the deal, and there'd be extra hands to deal with the issues that arise.

Seriously, I just don't get it. Almost without exception the principals have been extremely supportive of forensics, and those exceptions were far from negative, just less gung-ho, so I have nothing to complain about personally. It's just ennervating. You sort of get one where you want him and, bingo, there's another one. At least Mr. Mackin knows the drill, having been through both Bump and Districts.

The coming year gets more interesting by the minute.