Excuse me?
I received an email today addressed to "Fall Coaches," from the Athletic Director. She proceeds to inform us of mandatory coaches meetings, dates of student physicals, and all other sorts of coaching-related information. I almost deleted it until I realized my coworker/team mate's name among the recipients.
Then it "hit" me. I remember, waaaaaaaaaay back in June, expressing interest in coaching cross country this year. My stipulations were 1) I only wanted to coach if my coworker could coach with me (since neither of us have ever coached anything in our lives) and 2) I refuse to drive an activity bus. I never heard back from Miss Athletic Director. I assumed she wasn't interested in my lack of abilities or wimpy attitude about operating large vehicles. No big deal.
And now this email. I called my coworker & interrupted her New England vacation to dissect the news. She's generally the calm one, and would remain level-headed. Unfortunately, she matched my response with unprecedented shock & disbelief.
Apparently, expressing mild interest is synonymous with being signed up for the job. I don't mind doing it; cross country is a fall sport with a short season & no one really cares about team performance. But it would have been nice to know this a little earlier. I would have read books this summer on coaching, or planned a few semi-reasonable workouts. Yikes!
I guess my own "learn by doing" teaching philosophy is coming back to haunt me. The more frightening thing is, I've "expressed interest" in a number of extracurricular activities for next year, and if this scenario is typical of the way things happen at my school . . . I'm in trouble.
I think I'll deal with this later. I have exactly 2 weeks of summer vacation left, and plan to remain blissfully ignorant of any school-related responsibilities until absolutely necessary.
Then it "hit" me. I remember, waaaaaaaaaay back in June, expressing interest in coaching cross country this year. My stipulations were 1) I only wanted to coach if my coworker could coach with me (since neither of us have ever coached anything in our lives) and 2) I refuse to drive an activity bus. I never heard back from Miss Athletic Director. I assumed she wasn't interested in my lack of abilities or wimpy attitude about operating large vehicles. No big deal.
And now this email. I called my coworker & interrupted her New England vacation to dissect the news. She's generally the calm one, and would remain level-headed. Unfortunately, she matched my response with unprecedented shock & disbelief.
Apparently, expressing mild interest is synonymous with being signed up for the job. I don't mind doing it; cross country is a fall sport with a short season & no one really cares about team performance. But it would have been nice to know this a little earlier. I would have read books this summer on coaching, or planned a few semi-reasonable workouts. Yikes!
I guess my own "learn by doing" teaching philosophy is coming back to haunt me. The more frightening thing is, I've "expressed interest" in a number of extracurricular activities for next year, and if this scenario is typical of the way things happen at my school . . . I'm in trouble.
I think I'll deal with this later. I have exactly 2 weeks of summer vacation left, and plan to remain blissfully ignorant of any school-related responsibilities until absolutely necessary.
1 Comments:
I second the "ignore it until you have to deal with it" philosophy. Enjoy these last few summer days. I will point out, however, that you can say "no" to Ms. AD's rude assumptions, something along the lines of "since I had no confirmation from you at the end of the school year, I've made other plans for my time this school year." If you want to do it, though, enjoy!!
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