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“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury.
Ahhhhh, it’s not only clocks that slay time. Admins are pretty good at it too. The meetings that everyone are forced to attend that could be emails to be skimmed. Oh yes, those are big time slayers, indeed! I know this isn’t only an issue in education, because I have friends outside of education who have also mentioned this conundrum, but education sure is loaded with them. In fact, I cannot think of a faculty meeting in the last few years that actually gave any kind of needed information. Mostly, the faulty meetings at my school have been various “shout outs” in a vain attempt to build morale, when really everyone is rather exasperated that…