ST. CROIX — They locked him out of the main gate. He was late, not properly dressed and did not carry an ID. But after some debate and clarification, the student, seemingly in his late 50s, was allowed to enter the Educational Complex and ordered to immediately report to the main office.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the campus, teenage monitors tried to keep disorderly students, all in their late 20s and beyond, in check. And the principal, no more than 17 years old, patrolled the grounds making sure her institution was operating smoothly.<\/p>\n
If something seems off-kilter with that picture, that’s because there was — albeit by design.<\/p>\n
All this week, the Virgin Islands Department of Education has been participating in American\u00a0Education Week<\/a><\/span>, which ends today and has seen participation from many local schools, whose faculty and staff, along with students, put on multiple events to mark the occasion. On Thursday, the Educational Complex held what it called Educator for the Day, where students took on the roles of the school’s administration and, conversely, administration acted like students.<\/p>\n The coordination of the activity was organized to every last detail, too, with teachers and other administrators actually dressing the role that they played. Some passed as students effortless. Others, though, not so much.<\/p>\n