September: The school year starts out on a positive note, as the school has bonded togther over the vandalism of August 2006. This blog appears to be dead because no one had taken up the reins after the glass of 2006 graduated.
October: Football team winning a lot of games, mostly on the backs of players who probably shouldn't be at City. Lots of recruiting at neighborhood schools for good players, to the chagrin of other athletic programs in the city, as well as several faculty, who notice that many of the recruited athletes are not academically prepared or motivated for City. In addition, athletes are simply treated differently by administration.
November: Faculty notices that absolutely nothing is done about disciplinary referrals to the point where it is comical. Who is in charge of discipline at the school? No one knows.
December: In an effort to bring some respect back to City, the administration begins a decorum system, in which teachers can send a student down to the decorum room for using bad language, having electronics out, or violating the dress code. The program works very well for a few weeks, and then administration drops it without telling the faculty.
January: The fact that administration is never in the hallway is becoming more and more apparent. Faculty morale is low and getting lower. The halls are teeming with students all the time. Heaters break, interrupting the school day many times.
February: Mr. Dawson is gone for nearly the entire month, including a trip to the Super Bowl in Miami, as well as to several conferences. Hallways continue to erode.
March/April: Hallways continue to be terrible. Trash piles up everywhere. No soap in bathrooms. Several fires are started that force evacuation of the building. Some teachers get together to organize a Vote of No Confidence in the largely absent administration. Mr. Geppi catches wind of it and tells Dawson, who plans a faculty meeting (which he actually attends) in which faculty brings up issues in the school, from hallways to behavior to lack of follow through and organization.
May: For the most part, the administration starts to get visible in the hallways. It's clearly too little, too late, and too much in the morning and not enough in the afternoons, but the effort is nice to see.
June: Students who assault teachers with eggs and vandalize the school and the cars in the parking lot - and are caught - are STILL allowed not only to participate in Senior closing activities. They not only walk the stage, but they are allowed to SING during Senior farewell. What a mockery of the discipline system at City!
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