The governing body of my school is called the Instructional Leadership Council. There are quite a few teachers on the council, and the powers that be decided that the ILT needed to have a working retreat today. That meant that at least ten teachers were out for that reatreat. On top of that, we are all experiencing the back to school crud, so many teachers are out sick. We had a total of 22 teachers absent today. It blew my mind.
My day was ruined this morning. I got to the school and checked my box for anything important. Inside my box was a list of things that I needed to take care of within my team during our common prep today. Ok, no problem. My entire team was absent with the "crud" on Monday, which is why it didn't get done earlier. Thankfully, we were all here today, so I was in productive mode.
I decided to step into the office to make sure the principal's secretary had received the email my co teacher sent. My co-teacher was out with the crud and she had sent her lesson plans to the secretary via email.
I had very bad timing.
There was a pile of sub folders on the principal's desk, and a line of clueless subs in front of her desk. She was handwriting each teacher's schedule for each sub. This made me giggle because there isn't a teacher alive that doesn't have their schedule written down in their sub folder. The secretary is irritated with all the work she is doing, which was made me giggle ( you realize I'm giggling internally. NEVER laugh at the secretaries. EVER) even more. Needless to say, I should have just turned around and quietly slithered out of the front office, but I'm an idiot.
No really, I'm an idiot. Trust me.
I go to her desk and ask her if she got an email from Mel, my co teacher. She hadn't even turned on her computer, so no. Then as I was turning away, she had to ask me why Mel sent her an email. So, because I'm stupid, I tell her that Mel has bronchitis, and didn't go to work. Oh dear lord was that the wrong answer.
She tells me that she's going to need my team's help this morning with subs. Ok, no problem. Oh, nevermind, that's a big problem. I have a ton of stuff to get done and my deadline was two days ago. When I tell her that, her answer floored me.
I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. I don't care about what you have to get done, I need you guys to cover classes.
Excuse my language, but oh fuck!! I got my butt chewed out on Monday because my team was all out sick and we have assignments to complete. Then today my team is all there and we are having to sub for other teachers who are out at a meeting!!!???!!! I had no words to describe how I felt. I went back to my classroom and burst into tears. I don't get reduced to tears all that often, and when I do it's usually out of sheer frustration, which was the case today as well. My principal considers me a second rate human, so you can imagine what kind of teacher she thinks I am. I have been trying so friggin hard to convince her of my worth (but what's the use. I am a DAMN good teacher, and I know that already). Then crap like this happens, and even though I have no control over the situation as a whole, I am going to be the one held responsible for the "assignments" that didn't get completed.
On the plus side, I got all of it done, and we called a ton of parents this morning to discuss some behaviors we have been having. It was a productive morning, it just started badly.
posted by lobo5747 @ 5:00 PM
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My boss sounds just like your principal! He'd love to have a reason to get rid of me but I just won't give him one. Hee hee. Hang in there. I think being a teacher is one of the hardest jobs out there today.
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