Yikes! I feel like I clicked on the large print edition of SG by accident.
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(Clearly they meant to put exclamation points, but instead just made the font bigger.)
Anyway, I'm glad that they seem to be making smaller changes instead of overhauling everything at once. Hooray, SG web developers!
Anyway, I just came to get my dose of weekly asshole fuckfaces and decided to comment on the website changes. Now I think I'll add my own asshole fuckface. Get ready!
Actually, I don't have the energy to make it a witty, amusing article. I'll just give you the facts, in list form, and let you add the snark.
* My principal has offered very few suggestions for how to improve my weaker areas. He knew before he hired me that I had issues with organization, and his only way of handling that was to remind me that I have trouble organizing things.
* My first evaluation was good. I was given Above Standard on something, I think use of technology. Whee!
* He has been in my classroom since the beginning of the year a total of 5 times, once for the aforementioned good evaluation.
* We've had a total of 2 one-on-one meetings. The other times he's talked to me were right before students were going to be in my classroom or while students were in my classroom. He has begun conversations each time with a loaded or overly vague question ("Have I failed you as a principal?", "How is everything?", "What are your plans for next year?"). Any of these questions leave me with the choice to answer honestly and get into a long discussion or lie and move on with my day. He never follows up.
* Our last meeting was Friday, when he opened up with "What are your plans for next year?" I was honest, this time, since it was after school and I knew I had time to talk to him. I told him I wasn't sure, and began listing reasons why, beginning with curriculum issues (I teach in a Reading First school, the program that Bush shoved down people's throats and now is discovered to be completely ineffective).
* He stopped me before I went further to tell me he's concerned with my organization. I explained the things I've put in place for this year, and that it still looks chaotic because catching up is putting me further behind. I emphasized the point that I can work through the chaos this year, the students will be fine, and next year I'll have a better idea of what to do. He then proceeded to show me his filing system and how disorganized it is (two piles of papers about a foot high) and how mine should be like that.
* I stopped talking.
* He went on to say that he's seriously considering not renewing my contract because of my organization, the fact that I don't follow my lesson plans consistently, and because my students aren't always on task.
* He told me I should put my name on the transfer list (to teach at another school in the district, something I'd already considered). He proceeded to remind me that a bad evaluation (coming up) means that I can't transfer to another school within my district. (To which I was thinking, "wtf? Why is he telling me to go on the transfer list if he's also going to tell me I probably won't be able to transfer??") Then he mentioned that a bad evaluation might effect employment elsewhere.
* The only question I could get out before I started to lose it was, "Why am I hearing this now, at the end of March?" to which he responded, "well, I mentioned that we needed to meet in December, but you forgot to follow up."
* I nearly cried. Luckily, I made it out of his office before I started.
* I'm trying to figure out how to deal with this situation tactfully so I can get the fuck out and get a job in a school with a principal who will support me.
I am not a bad teacher, and refuse to be treated as such because I am open-minded, curious, and not afraid to say, "hey, this doesn't seem to be working."
There is so much backstory to this. He has said inappropriate things to teachers, always borderline (so you walk away thinking, "um, that was... odd" and not "ZOMG I'm reporting him!" and always to non-tenured teachers in one-on-one meetings. He rarely comes early or stays late, and avoids emails and discussions surrounding issues (unless his is laying out YOUR issues). He holds personal grudges and reacts to criticism as though it is a personal attack.
This is his first year as a principal. He is considered a golden child of the superintendent. I'm afraid to push this for fear of being totally screwed, but best believe as soon as I get myself into a secure position, I will be pursuing his professional demise. He's misogynistic, lazy, and racist, and he lets his personal opinions negatively impact the students at the school.
He is my personal asshole fuckface.
GIRLS!! PICS!!! VIDEOS!!! INTERVIEWS!!! NEWS!!! SHOP!!!
(Clearly they meant to put exclamation points, but instead just made the font bigger.)
Anyway, I'm glad that they seem to be making smaller changes instead of overhauling everything at once. Hooray, SG web developers!
Anyway, I just came to get my dose of weekly asshole fuckfaces and decided to comment on the website changes. Now I think I'll add my own asshole fuckface. Get ready!
Actually, I don't have the energy to make it a witty, amusing article. I'll just give you the facts, in list form, and let you add the snark.
* My principal has offered very few suggestions for how to improve my weaker areas. He knew before he hired me that I had issues with organization, and his only way of handling that was to remind me that I have trouble organizing things.
* My first evaluation was good. I was given Above Standard on something, I think use of technology. Whee!
* He has been in my classroom since the beginning of the year a total of 5 times, once for the aforementioned good evaluation.
* We've had a total of 2 one-on-one meetings. The other times he's talked to me were right before students were going to be in my classroom or while students were in my classroom. He has begun conversations each time with a loaded or overly vague question ("Have I failed you as a principal?", "How is everything?", "What are your plans for next year?"). Any of these questions leave me with the choice to answer honestly and get into a long discussion or lie and move on with my day. He never follows up.
* Our last meeting was Friday, when he opened up with "What are your plans for next year?" I was honest, this time, since it was after school and I knew I had time to talk to him. I told him I wasn't sure, and began listing reasons why, beginning with curriculum issues (I teach in a Reading First school, the program that Bush shoved down people's throats and now is discovered to be completely ineffective).
* He stopped me before I went further to tell me he's concerned with my organization. I explained the things I've put in place for this year, and that it still looks chaotic because catching up is putting me further behind. I emphasized the point that I can work through the chaos this year, the students will be fine, and next year I'll have a better idea of what to do. He then proceeded to show me his filing system and how disorganized it is (two piles of papers about a foot high) and how mine should be like that.
* I stopped talking.
* He went on to say that he's seriously considering not renewing my contract because of my organization, the fact that I don't follow my lesson plans consistently, and because my students aren't always on task.
* He told me I should put my name on the transfer list (to teach at another school in the district, something I'd already considered). He proceeded to remind me that a bad evaluation (coming up) means that I can't transfer to another school within my district. (To which I was thinking, "wtf? Why is he telling me to go on the transfer list if he's also going to tell me I probably won't be able to transfer??") Then he mentioned that a bad evaluation might effect employment elsewhere.
* The only question I could get out before I started to lose it was, "Why am I hearing this now, at the end of March?" to which he responded, "well, I mentioned that we needed to meet in December, but you forgot to follow up."
* I nearly cried. Luckily, I made it out of his office before I started.
* I'm trying to figure out how to deal with this situation tactfully so I can get the fuck out and get a job in a school with a principal who will support me.
I am not a bad teacher, and refuse to be treated as such because I am open-minded, curious, and not afraid to say, "hey, this doesn't seem to be working."
There is so much backstory to this. He has said inappropriate things to teachers, always borderline (so you walk away thinking, "um, that was... odd" and not "ZOMG I'm reporting him!" and always to non-tenured teachers in one-on-one meetings. He rarely comes early or stays late, and avoids emails and discussions surrounding issues (unless his is laying out YOUR issues). He holds personal grudges and reacts to criticism as though it is a personal attack.
This is his first year as a principal. He is considered a golden child of the superintendent. I'm afraid to push this for fear of being totally screwed, but best believe as soon as I get myself into a secure position, I will be pursuing his professional demise. He's misogynistic, lazy, and racist, and he lets his personal opinions negatively impact the students at the school.
He is my personal asshole fuckface.