A Piece Full World

"Inner hurricanes become the foreboding odd silence of the hurricane's center. Cowards become heroes." K.W.

"There is no perspective when it comes to abuse.

There is only abuse."-K.W.

"Public education is being mobbed and bullied."

--Kim Werner

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A Piece Full World's goal is to end bullying in our schools. When employees are safe from workplace bullying and children are safe from school bullying, we transform our schools into places of honor, courage and character. Ultimately, we transform our world. One school at a time, we put together the pieces of....

A Piece Full World.

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"Real progress requires pushing and shoving and urging and cajoling and coaxing – and then pushing some more (courteously when you can, not so mannerly if the former doesn’t work)."

--David Lawrence Jr., The Children's Movement of Florida

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"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."

--Gandhi

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School Board Rule:Responsibilities and Duties states: All persons employed by the School Board of (School District's name) are representatives of the (School District's name). As such they are expected to conduct themselves, both in their employment and in the community, in a manner that will reflect credit upon themselves and the school system. Unseemly conduct in the workplace is expressly prohibited.

Click "No Place for Hate!" The Anti-Defamation League has terrific resources for creating a school wide bullying prevention program!

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"Be ashamed to die before you have won some battle for humanity."

Horace Mann

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"My Guy"

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Nothing you could say could tear me away from my guy,
Nothing you could do 'cause I'm stuck like glue to my guy.
I'm sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter,
Like (rot to a banana) we stick together,
I'm tellin' you from the start I can't be torn apart from my guy.

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"Nothing you could say could tear me away from my guy....."

I love having O! I get to blame O for EVERYTHING! He's responsible for my short temper. My fat body. He's responsible for my gray hair. Any time I cough, I think "ah-oh. impaired immune system. O's at it again."

Argue with my husband? My teenaged children? O's fault.

Can't sleep? Drink a wee bit too much wine? O. Of course O.

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"Nothing you could do 'cause I'm stuck like glue to my guy...."

O cackles. Screams. Drums his impatience and menace inside of me. Really. He leers and gloats. "Think you got away from me, do you honey? Really?"

He spits. Sweats, too.

He works out. Rarely sleeps.

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"I'm sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter...."

O's in good "Kim shape." He dresses in Richard Simmon's 1980s preferred workout atire: short shorts and tank top.

"Why," I ask myself, "did I allow him to bring all of those free weights?" He's got them set up in my backside. There's a lot of space there.

My "muscle bound man" is in better "Kim" shape than I am. But I at least get to blame him for my belly, bunions and jiggly backside. I think my belly's his favorite place. "I'm hungry" he whines as he reclines there in his tight shorts and tank top. "Feed me."

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No "handsome face" can ever take the place of my guy...."

O likes to scoot on up to my mind too. He gets a "good workout" inside of me and so--because he's well fed--he ascends with ease. Just swings from blood vessel to vein. Does lung lunges, as he mounts a lung. "One! And two three, four!" The exertion makes him breathless. I too feel a shortness of breath as he stomps my breathing apparatus.

O lugs himself up through my throat and with one hand sometimes hangs for just a moment from my uvula and taunts me. Thumbing his nose at me, he wiggles his fingers, with the other hand. "Na-na-na-na-boo-boo.... Just you try and spit me out! Ha!"

"Ewww it's nasty in here!" as he tip toes through the wax of my eustachian tube. "CLEAN UP THIS F@#KING MESS!"

If you've followed A Piece Full World the last seven years, you know that I tried to keep O out. I thought then that putting my words and experience outside of me would keep him out too. And so I wrote. And I wrote. And wrote, wrote, wrote.

"Like birds of a feather, we stick together..."

I remember then my fingers jabbing the key pad as another one of his bullied educators contacted me. And then others from all over the nation. Educators needing. Needing help, solace and guidance.

"Like birds of a feather, they stick together...."

My guy is not unique. My guy is just another sociopathic principal who coercively controls others. A mean guy is my guy. A nasty, self serving, dangerous, dull guy--one of so many.

But this guy, you best be believin' I won't be deceivin' is My Guy.

School Board Rule: Code of Ethics states: All members of the School Board of (School District's name), regardless of their position, collective bargaining status or role, because of their dual roles as public servants and educators are to be bound by the Code of Ethics..to create an environment of honesty and integrity...the freedom to learn and to teach and the guarantee of equal opportunity for all..strive for professional growth and seek to exercise the best professional judgment and integrity...to achieve and sustain the highest degree of ethical conduct.

Click here for U.R.A.J.E.R.K: A humorous play starring Mr. Bully Boss and Captain Effective Leader.