In-Service Day: Another Assault on teachers

Today was an Inservice Day.  If you're not a teacher, you don't understand.   Let me try to assist in your understanding.

Schedule:
8am:  a meeting about cultural competency.  My basic take from this meeting is to not be a racist.  Quite specifically, don't go up and touch a black person's hair just because you think it's cool looking.  (I believe children learn this lesson in elementary school, with the personal bubble and all.)
9am:  a meeting about teacher "feeling words" and how to navigate, well, your feelings.
10am:  another meeting about LGBT+ students and how to deal with their identifying names and pronouns (to be honest, this one was probably necessary for a lot of people, specifically older people who don't think transgender people are real).
11am:  a 2 1/2 hour meeting about ... ?  I honestly don't know.  What I do know is that the person who was speaking was being paid to talk to a roomful of adults who are all teachers, but talked to us like we were painfully ignorant children who were raised by wolves or something.  And then, there was a mass herding of people to four different locations with gigantic sticky notes to write down feeling words and ideas to help students deal with their feeling words.
12pm:  I didn't go to lunch.  Instead, because I'm the head of the Staff Appreciation Committee, I typed out a note to get teachers to do something fairly simply, cut 100 pieces of paper to fit on 100 small manilla envelopes, and then taped the note to the envelopes.  Then I assembled 3000 little "apples" for students to write a nice note to a teacher.  Then I sent out emails to explain the simple thing (which teachers will inevitably mess up).  And then I put them in the mailroom.  When those are filled out, I will have to go through all 3000 and sort them by teacher, in order to redistribute those notes to the right teacher.
1:30pm:  yet another meeting about which insurance company/plan our district should go with (as if our voice really matters), plus I've already attending three of those meetings and watched several videos online.
2:00pm:  went to Sam's Club to pick up the food I ordered for Staff Appreciation, which I will have to somehow get into the school during the next week without wanting to punch someone in the face because I have to sherpa that shit in, so people can have snacks all week.

Then, I came home, and now I'm grading the papers I should have been grading WHILE I WAS AT WORK!   But no, I have to do my actual work at home, because when I'm attending a staff day, I can't get anything productive done.

Meanwhile, students have the day off.
Super-productive use of my time.