by The Albatross
No one has refuted what the Albatross said in the last column about the assistant principal at Hamden High School, Lisa Dyer, her mismanagement of the school, and her affair with a married man. There have been no demands for a retraction, no claims of defamation. No one has defended her in the comments section. It’s difficult to look at her, let alone have her evaluate you after being reminded of this sordid business. The wanton looks. To see Mrs. Dyer is to remember the nightmare.
The Albatross does not engage in lies. Maybe, just maybe, what the Albatross has been saying for the past year-and-a-half has been 100% true.
The Albatross has no patience for Mrs. Dyer’s amnesiac apologists. It was that wife who deserved sympathy, put through an emotional workout. A woman who pursues a married man is like a shark lurking in the water. Your husband could be next. Some woman, as soulless as an international airport, could be working indefatigably right now, just like Mrs. Dyer was, to get your husband to trade you for her.
These women are predators. But in the final tally, they never get it. A married man does not leave his wife for another woman, no matter how terrific her performance in the boudoir. The other woman gets sent straight to the back seat every time.
In any case, a woman as audacious as Lisa Dyer does not easily experience humiliation. She was not above telling us all to “f&%$ off.” Nothing is too embarrassing for someone who openly paraded an adulterous liaison. To this day, she walks around the building with a maddening confidence. It has been years since her roguish lover left us, but neither of them were one whit ashamed. A late-in-life reinvention does not eclipse the memories of everyone who was in the hallowed halls of Hamden High School during this squalid time.
Before her lover left Hamden High for a new position in another district, Mrs Dyer’s audacity was on full display when she brazenly held a party for him at Gouveia Vineyards. And why not? She was an administrator by then. So a new Hamden tradition began: hosting a party for a married lover. Wine glasses in hand, the two presented themselves as a couple. Let’s just say that after rounds and rounds of celebratory glasses were poured, there was more fun than could possibly be described. I won’t tell you what was done with an ounce of beluga caviar.
People have always cheated. But they would go to hole-in-the-walls, drink for cheap, and proceed to a motel. Maybe there was time for another beer before the husband had to head home. The adulterers would not romp around in public. Affairs may be as old as time, but out of respect for the institution of marriage, and a wife, they are not flaunted.
One would have had to have been a blockhead not to have known about Lisa Dyer’s exploits. Gary Highsmith knew when he hired Mrs. Dyer as assistant principal. Instead of a statement such as, “This behavior is contrary to the values of those who work for Hamden Public Schools…,” and termination, Mrs Dyer was promoted. Her affair highlighted the disconnect between messaging and reality in Hamden Public Schools.
Educators have a civic duty to behave themselves. They are invested not only in students’ academic development, their social-emotional development, but their moral development as well. The moral development of the young is linked to educators’ behavior. Bad behavior cannot be sieved out of the school. It taints the building. The educators’ behavior must be aligned with the school’s values.
Affairs used to sink someone’s reputation and career, but the United States no longer takes marriage seriously. In serious countries, people are arrested for their adulterous liaisons. In some non-Western countries, the punishment for both parties is death. We do not recommend this. We remember the words of Christ, who, when an adulturess was brought to him, said: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. The punishment in other non-Western lands is a 100 lashes for the unmarried adulterer. Alas, that punishment also sounds deadly.
Let us follow the other words of Christ, and advise Mrs. Dyer to sin no more.
Affairs hurt children, families, and communities. It is impossible to tell what damage cheating does to children. The wife, who is running the home and raising the children, now has the stress of competing with her husband’s backdoor girl. The family is deprived of beautiful moments together, precious time that they can never get back. When families are not united, communities fracture.
Marriage is a fragile institution. Let’s treat it with care. Until we do, electronic tracking devices must be attached to philanderers so their wives know where they are at all times. And the unmarried adulterer needs to sign the waiver. Affairs come with risks. Unlike Mrs. Dyer, we need to respect marriage.
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In all seriousness though, this article is extremely suspicious on several fronts. The idea of blaming the Ms Dyer as opposed to the husband who actually did the cheating itself invokes memories of when “homewrecker” had significantly more impact than “cheater.” Furthermore, the wide generalizations of “non-western” countries is not only vaguely racist, it’s verifiably wrong when looking at the eastern hemisphere as a whole instead of cherry picking countries. And the part where you said that the US “no longer takes marriage seriously” is… concerning. That terminology is usually used when referring to no-fault divorce, and the fact that it appears here is highly suspicious. Finally, and this is more advice than feedback, saying that you have never lied makes you sound like a liar. It’s the journalism equivalent of a child running to the door after being left alone for an hour and immediately saying “nothing’s broken.”