The Incredible Shrinking Man

My principal doesn't want me back next year... OK, I can live with that. Thus, he'd rather not praise me at today's end-of-year luncheon... makes sense to me. Unfortunately for him, my kids did really well on the state-mandated exam, and he likes to use the luncheon to hand out awards to teachers for various accomplishments during the school year. So to avoid handing me a lovely inkjet-printed certificate, he made up a category for which I didn't qualify, available only to teachers of "standard" courses (since I taught only Honors). But he neglected to notice the person he gave it to instead of me also didn't teach any standard courses. Sad, really. If he'd just come to me before-hand, I'd have told him to make the category "Most gains by a teacher who isn't me," and we could have all enjoyed the award.