There are just some things that you are just not supposed to do in a school building, like only district authorized personnel are allowed to paint walls. We know that. We also know the impossibility of that happening in a timely manner. If my favorite teacher were to put in a request, say yesterday, he may get his room approved for painting next summer if he were lucky.
Of course, there are ways around this. Say for instance, you move from your old building into your new building into the biggest disaster of a room ever seen by mankind. And there is nothing the custodians can do to help you because they are swamped beyond belief.
You might mention to them that you'd like to paint a wall because it is beyond trashed, that you'd do all the spackling, use drop clothes, and clean up the mess. And because they feel for you and have watched you bring up cart loads of trash for three days, there might appear outside of your door a cart with paint, spackle, brushes, and rollers along with a ladder.
They might also subtly mention what wing they'll be working in at what time so that you would know there would be no one to observe what is happening in your room.
And you just might be able to get two coats done in one afternoon because one of the custodians might have mentioned that the big fans in the gym create a nice drying breeze.
Sam's room looks great now! The floors are going to be cleaned on Monday. Once they're dry, he can begin moving in the (seriously!) two hundred boxes he has stacked in the hall.
Only fourteen more working days until hernia surgery . . .
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