Secret Spirit Week the subject line read, and the email contained details about staff dress each day. But don't tell the students! the message ended.
The idea was a novel one to me, something that we have never done in the many years I've been teaching at this school, and all but one of the themes were easy for me to get behind: Monday dress in school spirit wear, Tuesday wear all black, Wednesday wear a hoodie, Thursday wear plaid flannel, Friday dress for the prom.
It was fun to see so many of my colleagues dressed alike all week, too, although as Heidi predicted, none of the kids even noticed. Today at the basketball game, as we stood on the sidelines in our plaid flannel shirts, one of the other English teachers stopped to chat on her way out. "You know what I noticed?" she said.
I raised my eyebrows expectantly.
"We are all dressed like you!"
"And we have been all week!" I agreed.
"That ends tomorrow though," I told her.
"No prom for you?" she laughed. "Well, I guess I expected so."
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