Diary of a Mad Bitner

This is a small transcript of the fist fight I nearly go into at a Staff Development this weekend:

Bitner: Well, sir what would you recommend I do when my principal thinks that my job is to teach English, not Language Arts, and so she sends my kids to the other reading teacher, who just teaches stratagy and not conent, so they can what she calls 'a double dose' "

Woman teacher: Really, isn't that confusing?

Instructional coach: Is there someone in the MLEP dept. you might be able to get to help you?

Me: Umm I know people in the MLEP, but they're not at my school

Random asshole: "Umm, do you not know the law, because your job is to teach them English"

Bitner: (eyes wide): Umm no, actually I just took a test on the law this summer and it doesn't say that

Random asshole: Well what do you mean, unless they changed the law

Bitner: Actually they did change the law

Random Asshole: Are you sure...

Bitner: Did you just hear that I said I took a test over it to get this thing I call a Bilingual supplement this summer? My job is to get those kids to think in both languages, not kill one in favor of the other, but my principal just thinks that I'm here to teach these kids English and I'm not... so what can I do with this training for that

Random Asshole: Well then what are you good for? (Or something like this)

Bitner: No... (repeating above, only louder)

Instuctional Coach: Umm, do you know anyone in the MLEP Dept.?

Random Asshole: Actually the law doesn't say that

Bitner: Actually it does, and I can get my girlfriend on the phone right now, (complete with head bob and arm wave, you know like a black girl) but I'm not the one with a misunderstanding of the law since I got a perfect score on that test... (Yes, I was yelling, and shaking in fury, like a bomb)

Somewhere in there I managed to tell everyone ( and by tell I mean yell like the crazy asshole I am)  in the room how to spell my name, that they could tell my principal because I was gonna probably have a conversation with her Monday morning. After that the Instructional Coach called a break and I just left the room seething. But it makes for a humorous replay.