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Jun. 23rd, 2004 09:15 amWhen Pyat sleeps in, I get to take the car, which is nice. Unfortunately, I have a lunch duty today and can't go out for lunch without cutting into class time. I'm considering that, though.
What follows is serious gossip, but since I won't put a name to it and no one I work with will read this, and since it's true, it can't damage a reputation.
My principal left the school one day last week to eat lunch with his "wife". He returned at 1:30, forty minutes after the start of afternoon classes.
He left the school the next day at lunchtime to go to a Principal's meeting at the board. A reliable source talked to a friend who is a principal, who said he never made it to the meeting. The superintendant assumed he was at the school, the school assumed he was at the meeting. Meanwhile, where in fact was he?
One of our secretaries works every second day. On one of her days off, she went to a local eatery and discovered him, eating lunch with a woman who was not his "wife" (in quotes because they are not actually married, and she doesn't refer to him as her husband.) He had told the other secretary that if his wife called, to tell her he was at such-and-such a meeting at the board office. All of this, of course, was happening during school hours.
My biggest complaint with all this is the lack of role model for our intermediates. How are they supposed to learn responsibility from someone who shows none? How can he expect teachers to treat him with acceptable respect when we are at our jobs, working our butts off to cover the fact that he isn't living up to his side of the bargain?
And of course, there's the issue of inequality among the teachers. I am not the only teacher to feel that he has ignored my needs and contributed to my lack of success. He helped write the improvement plan I was supposed to be on, but he didn't implement it or follow up on it when I asked him to. Any improvement I've made to my teaching practice has been entirely without administrative support. Meanwhile, some of the new teachers get large amounts of support, whatever job changes they ask for to the detriment of teachers who were doing those jobs before, and other perks that they haven't earned. (Not that I have anything against these teachers personally; I just wish he'd give everyone the same consideration he gives them.)
Am I nuts to expect these things from my boss?
I can't wait to be out of this school.
What follows is serious gossip, but since I won't put a name to it and no one I work with will read this, and since it's true, it can't damage a reputation.
My principal left the school one day last week to eat lunch with his "wife". He returned at 1:30, forty minutes after the start of afternoon classes.
He left the school the next day at lunchtime to go to a Principal's meeting at the board. A reliable source talked to a friend who is a principal, who said he never made it to the meeting. The superintendant assumed he was at the school, the school assumed he was at the meeting. Meanwhile, where in fact was he?
One of our secretaries works every second day. On one of her days off, she went to a local eatery and discovered him, eating lunch with a woman who was not his "wife" (in quotes because they are not actually married, and she doesn't refer to him as her husband.) He had told the other secretary that if his wife called, to tell her he was at such-and-such a meeting at the board office. All of this, of course, was happening during school hours.
My biggest complaint with all this is the lack of role model for our intermediates. How are they supposed to learn responsibility from someone who shows none? How can he expect teachers to treat him with acceptable respect when we are at our jobs, working our butts off to cover the fact that he isn't living up to his side of the bargain?
And of course, there's the issue of inequality among the teachers. I am not the only teacher to feel that he has ignored my needs and contributed to my lack of success. He helped write the improvement plan I was supposed to be on, but he didn't implement it or follow up on it when I asked him to. Any improvement I've made to my teaching practice has been entirely without administrative support. Meanwhile, some of the new teachers get large amounts of support, whatever job changes they ask for to the detriment of teachers who were doing those jobs before, and other perks that they haven't earned. (Not that I have anything against these teachers personally; I just wish he'd give everyone the same consideration he gives them.)
Am I nuts to expect these things from my boss?
I can't wait to be out of this school.