hall of dead guys

My one principal is really into leadership and Einstein.  Since Steve Jobs died, he's been into him too.  I think he fancies himself as some kind of visionary who is transforming education through being an insufferable tool.. and marrying his student teacher (she better watch herself because she's getting a bit long in the tooth and he likes them young). 

Anyway, he's begun to put framed pictures/quotes of Einstein, Jobs, Lincoln , MLK, and Kennedy in the hallway.  I've named it the Hall of Dead Guys. 

There are no women up on the wall. Maybe there are no women in leadership roles who are hot or thin enough for him. 

I decided to turn my cramped classroom (I share it with 2-4 other staff and 14 students throughout the week) into my own little gallery of leaders.  I cut and pasted pictures and quotes of Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, An San Suu Kyi, and Madam Curie into little posters and stuck them up near the door.  Of course this is the day The Walking Tool decided to come into the room.  He didn't comment.  I'm thinking of adding Frida Kohlo and Madeline Albright. 

Maybe no one will read them or bother to look them up.  But I know who they are and why I put them there, and knowing that will be a small comfort as I walk past all the dead guys every day.