All day long she sat at a computer in the media center, doing her best to be polite with parents and their children entering the room to become Union students. They ranged from a freshman who had failed all but one of his first semester classes at his prior high school, to a junior with straight “A’s” in AP classes. In between were the currently enrolled others who had marginally legitimate reasons to request a schedule change.

“I’m a pushover, we’re all pushovers,” she confided to herself, “and all the kids know it. Tomorrow they get my lecture about timing.”