Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Worst: having to have worked for Joel Beidleman and then see that the rot was so deep into central office, and then to know that nothing has really changed in the months since the article.

Amen! Not sure which coworker you are but this is the worst part. He is gone but the toxic culture in the building or in CO is not.

So nothing is likely to change under Felder?

Not as long as principals continue to have so much power

[Anonymous]

I worked at a school where the English as A Second Language resource teacher did not speak a second language herself which is hilarious because she expected teachers to not speak Spanish even when they could. I think that is ridiculous because they ridiculed teachers when they used Spanish to teach content. MCPS did not value teachers who spoke Spanish as well as English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a school where the English as A Second Language resource teacher did not speak a second language herself which is hilarious because she expected teachers to not speak Spanish even when they could. I think that is ridiculous because they ridiculed teachers when they used Spanish to teach content. MCPS did not value teachers who spoke Spanish as well as English.

It’s not a requirement that they to speak anything but English.

[Anonymous]

5 paragraph emails from parents. I mean, If it can be said in five sentences, please, do that. We are busy, have a lot of students, additional meetings and duties, and we do not have desk jobs that require us to sit in front of our computers 8 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cliquishness of administrators and their "mean girl" lackeys. I really despise toxic ILT dynamics, which can occur with either male or female leadership. So much of the time, it feels like candidates who are picked for internal leadership positions are people who are friends with the right people. It's demoralizing to feel like merit merits so little consideration. And there's no recourse. I miss having respect for my school leadership. It's been a long time since I felt that.

+1

Very well said.
Add to this the constant put downs for everything and anything.
This is a scenario that happened last week.
A kid was having a meltdown and I helped her calm down. Admin watched me do it my way and came over to tell me I didn’t go through the proper steps. I
Should have asked her “ what color do you see, red? Well let’s make it pink or blue” or whatever …
The kid calmed down after 2 “ specialists” were unsuccessful to do it.
No need to thank me but don’t criticize me for solving the problem.
This is just one example of what takes place on a daily basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cliquishness of administrators and their "mean girl" lackeys. I really despise toxic ILT dynamics, which can occur with either male or female leadership. So much of the time, it feels like candidates who are picked for internal leadership positions are people who are friends with the right people. It's demoralizing to feel like merit merits so little consideration. And there's no recourse. I miss having respect for my school leadership. It's been a long time since I felt that.

+1

Very well said.
Add to this the constant put downs for everything and anything.
This is a scenario that happened last week.
A kid was having a meltdown and I helped her calm down. Admin watched me do it my way and came over to tell me I didn’t go through the proper steps. I
Should have asked her “ what color do you see, red? Well let’s make it pink or blue” or whatever …
The kid calmed down after 2 “ specialists” were unsuccessful to do it.
No need to thank me but don’t criticize me for solving the problem.
This is just one example of what takes place on a daily basis.

I know exactly what that is like! Most admin are clueless. Just curious- behavioral specialists or content specialists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 paragraph emails from parents. I mean, If it can be said in five sentences, please, do that. We are busy, have a lot of students, additional meetings and duties, and we do not have desk jobs that require us to sit in front of our computers 8 hours a day.

I have the opposite issue. Parents who are MIA. They must be spies since nobody can get in touch with them. No home numbers work, no email address on file, Class Dojo messages go unread, notes in folders are still there months later. It’s exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cliquishness of administrators and their "mean girl" lackeys. I really despise toxic ILT dynamics, which can occur with either male or female leadership. So much of the time, it feels like candidates who are picked for internal leadership positions are people who are friends with the right people. It's demoralizing to feel like merit merits so little consideration. And there's no recourse. I miss having respect for my school leadership. It's been a long time since I felt that.

+1

Very well said.
Add to this the constant put downs for everything and anything.
This is a scenario that happened last week.
A kid was having a meltdown and I helped her calm down. Admin watched me do it my way and came over to tell me I didn’t go through the proper steps. I
Should have asked her “ what color do you see, red? Well let’s make it pink or blue” or whatever …
The kid calmed down after 2 “ specialists” were unsuccessful to do it.
No need to thank me but don’t criticize me for solving the problem.
This is just one example of what takes place on a daily basis.

I know exactly what that is like! Most admin are clueless. Just curious- behavioral specialists or content specialists?

Content specialists who have been trained to deal with behavioral issues. It’s one size fits all, rinse, repeat even if there’s no positive results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a school where the English as A Second Language resource teacher did not speak a second language herself which is hilarious because she expected teachers to not speak Spanish even when they could. I think that is ridiculous because they ridiculed teachers when they used Spanish to teach content. MCPS did not value teachers who spoke Spanish as well as English.

I thought ESOL best practices are to only use English otherwise the kids keep using Spanish because it is so much easier for them

[Anonymous]

If teachers and principals would have a very difficult if not impossible time taking chemistry taught in Spanish then how would you expect non English speaking kids to succeed in the same. They should have students only speak Spanish with no translator to an admin and see how much the admin retains. It would show that most admin have no second language under there belt. So why would you punish teachers who do speak a second language.

[Anonymous]

Most people are required to take a second language in high school and in college. Are admin so stupid that they can't retain Spanish 101 when they take years and years of it. Are they able to do basic math? Are they able to speak and write in correct English? Are there not basic skills to prove you have the minimum educational requirements?

[Anonymous]

Back to school tomorrow and I’m already dreading it …
Combattive and abrasive assistant principal and mean teachers who rejoice in making others miserable …l

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to school tomorrow and I’m already dreading it …
Combattive and abrasive assistant principal and mean teachers who rejoice in making others miserable …l

Any chance you are the principal?!

[Anonymous]

Room Moms. I could say Room Parents but it's always the Moms.

[Anonymous]

It's nice when hard working teachers give admin a taste of their own medicine.