Phone Tap: Principal For A Day

Today’s Phone Tap victim has a son who won a contest to be “Principal for a Day” at his school and Brooke's calling to let her know about the absolute CHAOS that’s unfolding thanks to his new policies…

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, we call a woman who, along with her husband,
just bit on an item at their son's elementary school auction. Okay,
the item was your child is principal for a day.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
At our school. I've heard about this.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, there's a lot of schools that do it, and
he usually they'll do things cute like recess gets extended
by ten minutes, or everyone gets to watch a movie
during one period of class. But we're calling to tell
the mom that her son has gone rogue and now
that he's in charge, he's requesting stuff that's way over

(00:34):
the line. So the tyranny has to end in your
phone tap right now another.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hello, Hi, is this Serena Bell. This is Vice Principal
Williams from elementary and I'm calling because, as you know,
your son Bryce is principal for the day today.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh Hi, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, I'll be honest, not great.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh no, what happened?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
It started off okay.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
He made the morning announcement, was very cute. But then
some of his requests, well, they began pushing the envelope,
I'll say, and the teachers just feel a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh no, what did he ask for? Your son? Bryce said?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
He wanted to start off the school day with the
children in the higher grades working on their division.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, oh that means you laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, I don't know if you realize this, but that's
a pretty unreasonable request.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not really, Okay, maybe I should take this back a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
You see, that's tractually considered learning and anything of that magnitude.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It needs to be approved through the Union. Do you see?
So children should not want to learn new things on
their own?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Is that what you're No.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
We love, we love when they want to learn new things.
It's just it needs to be approved.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
And you know, between you and me, I don't think
most of our teachers know that type of math to
even teach. Wait, you're saying that your teachers don't know
how to divide. I saw some of them scrambling for
their calculator apps on their phones.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
It was pretty shocking. You're joking right now. I wish
I was.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
And then instead of recess, Bryce wanted everyone to spend
those twenty minutes learning the names of US presidents.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
And what's the problem with that?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh god, I kept thinking, I don't even remember the
guy's name before, the one who falls asleep all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean, nobody knows presidents. That doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay, listen, I paid for this at the school auction,
and everything you're saying to me sounds completely reasonable.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, I tried to explain it to him as well.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I met with him one on one and I said, Brice,
what about implementing a mandatory board game hour like Candy
Land or Shoots and.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Ladders, you know, like normal kids stuff. And you know
what he said.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
He said he wanted to do Monopoly. Monopoly what it
is obviously so unfair to the middle class. I had
to Vito that it sounds to me like my son
has done nothing wrong and you don't know what you're
doing at the school. Do you think it's reasonable that
his monopoly idea, which was played in class, made his

(03:37):
teacher cry. Why would the teacher cry because he basically
shamed her for her teacher's salary. He shamed her. I
mean he didn't say that exactly, but can you imagine
how it would feel to her not being able to
buy a railroad, let alone broadway?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I mean, are you for real?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
It has been a nightmare, ma'am. It has been a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
There's even been a talk about a possible teacher walk
out to protest.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
What all my masking is.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
If you could just talk to Bryce and ask.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Him to step down from his post just a little early.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm not gonna ask him to step down. How about
you step down for not wanting kids to learn anything?
To see where he gets it from, you should be proud. Look,
I can just get him on the phone with you
and you tell him that he's wrong for trying to
educate others without getting union approval.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
There is nothing wrong.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, sorry, hold on just one second, let me grab them. No,
I'm talking to you.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm not talking to my son that by Hello, you
want me to tell your mom that this is a
prank phone call? What? Well, you're the principal.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
What did you say? Oh? Oh gosh, sorry, Yeah, Principal
Bryce says he wants me to tell you you're getting
phone tapped on the radio.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean? This is actually Brug from the radio show
Broug and Jeffy in the Morning, and your husband, Joel
set you up for a phone tap.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Knew it.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, Joel told us all about principal for the day
and you're.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Killed and he thought it would be funny. I mean,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Why you're so worried that the teachers didn't know how
to do division.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's terrible. Oh, come on, when was the last time
you did it without a calculator?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
The week up every morning was phone tap weekday mornings
all the twenties, Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.