The Minion’s that Run BATs
By Marla Kilfoyle, General Manager of BATs
Melissa Tomlinson, Asst. General Manager of BATs
Recently, in a contentious thread on BATs, we were referred to as minions, and in another thread a few weeks back, we were referred to as “womenfolk.” In both of those threads there seemed to be some insinuation that Mark Naison ran BATs on a day to day basis. We assure you he does many wonderful things for BATs, one of them being he Co-founded the page with Priscilla, but we can reassure you HE does not run BATs on a day to day basis. We know this because we do. Now the definition of a minion is : a follower or underling of a powerful person, esp. a servile or unimportant one. After reading this definition we decided it was time for folks to understand who really runs BATs on a day-to-day basis . Mark and Priscilla started the page but rest assured, teachers run the day-to-day operation of BATs, and teacher/parent voices drive the BATs agenda.
Marla Kilfoyle, General Manager of BATs
I have been teaching for 28 years. I still teach a full schedule (5 periods a day). I am a high school/middle school teacher and I am also the advisor for National Honor Society (115 members). I was elected the General Manager of BATs on June 16th by 29 of the 30 administrators. I haven’t taken a day off since that date. I work on the infrastructure of BATs 6 hours a day, 7 days a week. I do this because I have to. I do this because I know too much. I have never taken a dime from anyone for the work I do or the places I speak. I do it for free because I have to. I wake up at 5:00 a.m. every day to work on BATs before I go to school. When I wake up I check my personal email, my Facebook messages, the twitter messages, and the BATs Gmail accounts. In total, I have, on a busy day, over 50 messages to return and answer. Most of these messages are thanking BATs, some are hateful, and some ask
