Principal for the Day by AJ Stern

Author:AJ Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

“I will get you a snack, too!” I told him. “Do you love cookies?” I asked.

That’s when a lot of the kids started to yell for cookies, and Mr. Peters’s face turned extremely pink like a very amazing sunset.

“Frances Miller, please leave my classroom right now,” he said.

I turned to all the kids and shrugged, letting them know I would not be getting them snacks however and nevertheless. Then I slunked away toward the next classroom, where I was certainly going to be welcomed.

But to my horrible surprise, when I walked into Mrs. Baxter’s first-grade classroom, she was worse than Mr. Peters!

“Frannie, can I help you?” she asked when I walked in.

“I wondered if anyone wanted any snacks,” I said. “Eating is good for learning.”

“Yes! Yes! Snacks!” the kids yelled.

“Frances, please leave immediately. You know better than to barge into a classroom.” She didn’t even get up. She just pointed to the door, which I walked to quickly. Her voice was very strictish. When I shut the door behind me, I heard the class chanting together, “Snacks! Snack! Snacks!”

Then I heard some stomping, and when I looked back, Mrs. Baxter was pulling down the shade on her classroom door.

Couldn’t they see I was just trying to be helpful? Certainly my very own class would be very happy to see me. Besides, I couldn’t wait to show them what being Principal for the Day looked like on me. They were going to be really impresstified. Especially Elliott. And also Mrs. Pellington. She’d see me and think, Oh, silly me, thinking Frannie’s curious hands would get the better of her. Look at her being so adult and responsible making sure everyone is okay. She is a genius of the earth!

My classroom was at the very end of the hall. As I got closer to it, my heart started to get very thumpish. Then, just when I reached my arm out to turn the doorknob, a voice behind me asked, “What are you doing?” It was Cora.

“Introducing myself to everyone!” I told her.

“Didn’t I tell you to wait for me in the office?” she asked.

“I did wait,” I said. “I just waited . . . in this direction.”

“Frannie, I have a lot to do today. I don’t have time to be chasing you around. I really need you to follow the rules, okay?” Cora said without a smile anywhere on her.

“Okay,” I said, looking at the ground and feeling a little bit baddish. Then she took my hand and we walked back to my office.

“Sit back down, Frannie. You have a long to do list, and you’ve only gotten two of them done,” she said.

I scrunched my face at Cora in my brain where she couldn’t see it.

“Frankly,” I reminded her. Then I looked back down at the list and read the second thing I was supposed to do: Make twelve photocopies of the absentee list and distribute to all of the faculty.

I was excited that I got to photocopy so many pieces of paper.

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