Thursday, December 22, 2005
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This past week has been hell at school. The kids have been great (concidering it's the week before christmas) but the administration is getting on my nerves. For those of you who read my blogs, i have sometimes mentioned the horrible shi*t going on in our school. Well, this week was my turn to get picked on. Thing is I don't let people push me around, so whenever I am confronted, I answer back. I am pretty quick on my feet and have caught the principal off guard. She gets pissed off because she can't come back with a quick enough response, so she leaves, and goes to pick on someone else. The next day she'll come back and think of something else to pick apart. Finally she asked me to come to the office because of an incident that happened at the end of school yesterday. Apparently there are all these issues going on between 3 students... it is happening in the school yard... and apparently i'm supposed to be responsible for dealing with this. First, I am not on the yard where they are, so I have no idea what really happed, second it happend last week, and third, i'm the f*cken french teacher, not their homeroom teacher. So why is it my fault.. because she decided it should be.
Apparently all the issues that are happening on the school yard are due to my bad class management. I'm sorry, but you do realize that I see these kids for 4 days a week and for only 50 minutes... and I have another 7 classes, and don't have any issues in those classes. I think that if it was really my classroom discipline, then i'd be having issues in all of my classes wouldn't I? And why is this being brought to me and not to their real teacher? I'd like to think i have more power over them, but I really don't! 3 f*cken students and I see 176 a day!! yup, all my fault I tell you!
So i told the principal that if she wanted to deal with it I would.. but only this one specific issue (it involves some homophobic issues, and some teachers aren't comfortable talking about it). But I also told her that the issues that are happening on the yard are not my responsibility and she needs to step up to the plate and dish out some consequences. The kids are tired of the way things are being delt with.. they are sick of being pushed around and want it to be delt with, and I agree with them. However the principal will not do it, so here I am responsible for all this crap. I also told her that i am not changing what I do in my class cause i think it is working, and she cannot tell me how to run my class.
I felt like shi*t after that talk tho.. she pretty much told me i was a horrible teacher/person, and that she regretted hiring me. I told her that I'd be more than happy to leave.. this is a perfect time to fire me.. it's snowboarding time. But we both know she cannot fire me, and won't be able to find a replacement if I do leave! However, she did remind me that she was evaluating me this year and that with a bad evaluation I would have trouble getting into the schools I want to teach at. I refuse to stay at this school another year. I was in tears and could not stop while I was teaching... I told the kids I was having a bad day, and they fed me butter tarts to keep me happy... They are the only reason i won't leave. grrrrrrrrrrr this isn't even the entire story.. but i'm tired of typing.
Bring on the holidays.
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Published by cazza21: 6:20 PM
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