Harry has almost been banished!

[Jo]

This is a sad day indeed.

I told you earlier about my principal who is also a fan (although not 
actually a fanatic) and who is taking the fourth and fifth graders
who have 100 Accelerated Reader points by November 13 to the movie on 
November 16. (It looks like we will be taking about 12 to 15 kids to 
the movie.)  Anyway, she called me into her office this afternoon and 
told me that she was getting some tidbits around town that some
people are not pleased with the school actively promoting Harry 
Potter. She suggested that we should scale down our "visible 
enthusiasum." My class has finished reading SS, but a third grade 
teacher has been reading it. She is asking him to stop reading it to 
the class.  But the worst news is that she suggested that we might 
prevent any future conflicts if I would continue to have a Harry 
Potter "corner" of the room, but to go ahead and change the rest of 
the room to a fall theme. Tell me, what is wrong with stars?  This 
means I am going to have to take down my invisibility cloak, my wand 
and golden snitch that Imade before wands and snitches could be 
purchased. There will be no more room for my potion bottles, quills, 
parchment, and post owl. Does that mean I have to take down my 
calendar since it isn't in the corner? And what about the four posters 
that are already hanging and the three that are waiting until I find a 
spot for them?  Harry's trunk and cauldron will have to go in the 
closet along with his backpack that we keep on the back of his chair. 
And the bulletin board with the pages from Vanity Fair will have to 
go!  My brow it furrowed, and my head is hanging. :(

I know she is just trying to avert any future problems.  She is even 
listing several choices on the permission slip, with the movie as the 
last choice.  I feel like a guerrilla fighter going under cover.

I just had to vent. I'm glad you all are here for me to sound off to.

Professor Phlash, who knows that in reality she is Jo Crabtree the 
fifth grade teacher.  That reminds me that the sign in the hall that 
marks my room as 5th grade Muggle Studies will have to go also!

I'm so sad.