Lateness tends to be a habit in some people.

This is teaching life lessons.

Two years ago, the New York Post documented what was potentially the worst grade school in America.

PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, NYC, smelled of urine, had rats crawling in the walls, lacked textbooks, didn't teach art or gym classes, and lacked formal reading and math programs. As if that wasn't bad enough, students were left to watch movies like Alvin and The Chipmunks and Monsters, Inc. for hours at a time. This suddenly turned more tortuous than a North Korean prison.

This school of such impeccable educational standards was overseen by Marcella Sills, the principal. The school slipped through the cracks because it's evident that no one in a city of seven million cares to oversee deplorable conditions for children--and what 10-year old kid is going to blow the whistle on all-day animated movie marathons?

Now, according to The Post, "Last year, an arbitrator ruled Sills had 'committed theft of time' between September 2012 and January 2014 by failing to document 178 instances of her tardiness and hours absent from school." As a result, she lost her job. Ever the optimistic sort of rascal, Sills filed a reinstatement petition.

The problem with the principal that always showed up late to work is that she--wait for it, wait for it--filed her petition late, too.

As a result, Manhattan Judge Manuel Mendez tossed the reinstatement petition by Sills.

Somewhere in Far Rockaway, Queens, a group of grade schoolers released a collected defeated sigh that they'll never get marathon sessions of Alvin and The Chipmunks ever again.