I tell my students that there are two people they need to know and get along with in whatever school they teach: the school secretary and the custodian.
The school secretary knows everything that is going on and how to get things done by the book or by the loopholes in the book.
The custodian is the person who cleans up after a kid has lost his Cheerios. This is a job one wants accomplished quickly. Also the custodian cleans up large spaces and if you want to schedule a large space in such a way that the cleaning has to be accomplished more quickly, then only by being friends with the custodian will this get done.
In other words, it pays to have friends in high places.
At the same time, we place emphasis on diversity which is theoretically related to valuing every person. This is something that needs to be not just taught but modelled for students and how better to model it than to be respectful and kind to the people who are low on the school district totem pole?
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