Teacher gets back at micromanaging principal by drowning him in nonsensical paperwork until he finally quits: 'I sent him 20 page lesson plans'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 4, 2024 8:00 AM EST

There is only one reasonable way to get back at a micromanager, and that is to make them regret breathing down your neck. Here, we have a new high school principal who decided that he needed to approve every little idea this science teacher had for lab experiments. This approval process would go far beyond a quick email or conversation to run something by the principal. In fact, the micromanager expected to go through all lesson plans prior to approval. 

This, of course, is extremely frustrating to any instructor who would have to take the time to draft full lesson plans that might not even get approved while balancing that with their current workload. As always, let's take this opportunity to give a shout-out to all educators who have to put up with this bureaucratic nonsense.

Thankfully, this science teacher was not having it, and since they enjoyed drafting up pages and pages of nonsensical educational jargon, they submitted extensive lesson plans for the micromanaging principal to go through just to make him regret his insistence upon enforcing this approval process. The best part is that there were a number of complaints about this guy from other instructors as well, ultimately resulting in his voluntary dismissal. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about another teach who got even with a misbehaving student.

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    Micromanaging Principal S I am a science teacher and one year we got a new principal. He micromanaged everything
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    and everyone! In the past I did a few labs that had food in them. He sent out an email stating that if science teachers want to do labs that had food,
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    that we must send him a detailed lesson plan. I don't mind if the principal wanted to know why we did the lab and how it fits.
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    into the concepts we are teaching but a detailed lesson plan? I don't have a problem with rules but he was the type that didn't have an open door
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    policy, it's my way or the highway type of administrator. Cue my passive aggressive side, I sent him 20 page lesson plans
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    (I am really good at bs'ing educational jargon). And every lab that I could find that had food in it, I did it. that year! He did make my solar cooker completion impossible,
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    which k Id me because I had gotten grant money from a major leader in the engineering field the year before for the same exact project.
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    He ended up having so many grievances filed against him. It was a great day when he finally left!
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    small_t... 20 pages of BS?! | salute you!
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    ununse... Best way to deal with micromanagers. Che 'em on their own paperwork.
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    CoderJ... He solar cooked himself
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    JadeGr... Now I wonder what counted as "food." Vinegar and baking soda? Table salt? I used to do all kinds of "kitchen science" with my kids when they were small.
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    summe... I'm dealing with a micromanaging admin now. She tried to demand that no teacher is allowed to assign any projects
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    without HER permission, and that we need to request permission at least a week in advance. I'm losing my mind here, I may have to start doing what you are doing....
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    chefjen.... "Detailed Lesson Plan" When iw as in school, they made us write lessen plans
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    with other ways of doing the lesson, both at lower and higher levels.
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    I think I would.have had fun breaking thay down even further, into low, medium low, standard, medium high, high lol
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    Educat... Sounds like the Smart Snack nutritional guidelines. A lot of
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    the schools I spoke to this year had to stop some of the old school fundraisers because the baked
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    goods they were gonna sell didn't meet the Smart Snack guidelines.
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    Near any food item brought into a school has to comply with it, at least for my state.
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    My agency doesn't audit it but I've seen districts get nailed for it by other agencies.
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    It makes it real difficult to be just about any school activity with food. They have smart snack calculators on the federal website to help but it's not the fun food.
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