Getting my classroom ready.
I fought with my principals for weeks over whether or not I was going to have to move classrooms. I am currently a science teacher, and I don't like it very much. I am a language arts teacher at heart, but because I have a fascination with gemstones, I took gem classes in college and am now certified to teach science in middle school. Lucky me.So the principals decided to contract for a new science lab, and jokingly last year I commented that if they were going to make me teach science again, I was gonna get the new lab. I never really thought I would be teaching science again. Yet here I am. So when I received word that I would indeed be teaching 6th grade science again, I told the department leader that I had no interest in getting the new science room, and that they should really give it to one of my team teachers because she has been asking for it for three years.
She is special ed.
Special ed is very neglected where I work.
So I'm at a wedding for the science department leader, and of course both of my principals are there. They tell me that I need to go in to the school as soon as possible to move my things out of my classroom so that the woman who is getting my room (even hearing her name is like nails on a chalkboard. I cannot stand this particular teacher!!!) can move in and she wants to get it done immediately. I am floored that they decide to tell me this at a social event, but then I reconsider that this is coming out of the same mouth of the woman that I witnessed, oh wait, writing that would be considered gossipy.
I of course, get quite angry. I don't want the science lab, and I don't want this horrid woman in my room!! So my team teacher friend and I start a nice camaign to get what we want, and thanks to some wit and hard work, we both got what we want and the only person in the cold was the h woman nobody really cared about anyway.
*Note, I removed some of the original post, because I forget that some members of my staff may be reading this and don't necessarily need to be reading what was written there. If you had already read what was there, please know that I went ahead and took that piece of information to the state board of education and asked for advice on how to handle it further.
And I shall take even greater pleasure in being in my classroom for another year.
And I shall take great pleasure in knowing that TEACHER will not get my beloved classroom.
And I'll make sure I voice my pleasure.
posted by lobo5747 @ 9:11 PM
2 Comments:
You rock girlfriend. Teachers are so ignored and misaligned, and yet many people entrust their children to the schools for 9 months out of the year.
I'm glad your colleague got the big room for special ed. That rocks as well!
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