counter-rules

Updated: May 23, 2025

There were the superintendents, the supervisors, the special teachers, the principals petty officers of a petty tyranny in which too often seethed gossip, scandal, intrigue. There were the "soft places"; the deceitful, the easy, the harsh principals; the teachers' institutes to which the poor teacher was forced to pay her scanty dollars. There were bulletins, rules, counter-rules.

Robert Herrick - The Web of Life