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Show Monday not average day at PGHS By E. MARK BEZZANT What do you do when the power goes out at 6:30 a.m. on a school day? Call the principal. What do you do if the principal is at a convention in St. George? Call the vice principal. What does the vice principal do? He calls the superintendent. What do you do if the superintendent superin-tendent has left for the district office and can't be reached? You wait until he can be reached. What do five hundred plus high school girls do when their hair blowers and curling irons don't work? Try the fifties look, or natural, natu-ral, or go back to bed. What do five hundred boys do? Put on an extra coat of deodorant or rollover and go back to sleep. What does a parent do? Call the school. What does a school do when they only have two emergency phones? Man them. What do you do if you are at the junior high with no emergency phones? Use the pay phone. What do kids do when they are told school will be cancelled if the power is not on by 9 a.m.? Pray for a dejay. What do the lunch ladies do when their ovens don't work? Pray for power or closure. What do the lunch ladies do when the dishwasher, run by power, doesn't work? Use paper plates. What does a teacher do who only has five kids in a class? Complain, because they have grown so used to stacking them deep. What do some students do when the power comes on seven minutes before school would have been officially offi-cially closed? Run out the west doors and pretend you didn't get the word. What do you do when school starts an hour late? Pretend you had an assembly and go on the activity schedule. What don't you do when you have teenagers in a cold building? Tell them to huddle together. What do you do when everyone could use a little humor in a tense moment? You do what Jack Hill did. Dress up like Moses (in a hard hat?) and carry a sign that reads, "Let my children go." Ah, just another day in the life of a Utah educator. Who says your nnwpr hill inst turns nn t.hp litrhts? |