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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I LOVE the comments saying teachers just need to stand up to the principal!! I’m just sitting here laughing at your naïveté. You must work in a profession where you are respected and isn’t a traditionally women’s profession.  Let me help you. Elementary schools are traditionally women’s work and there is this history in our country of sexism. It is an entrenched, systemic problem.  Because of that history, the profession of teaching in our country still runs on very sexist principles. Even though it is mainly comprised of women! If you complain you are someone who must be rooted out because your critical ideas (however thoughtful they may be) are critical. If you question those in authority you are seen as being “aggressive”again in part  because you are a woman who is questioning authority. Principals are very unsure of themselves and  will bully (to the point of yelling and degrading others), threaten and make your job very uncomfortable- transfer you to a different grade, nitpick you lessons and generally make you life miserable until you decide either to leave or shut up. To the poster who suggested that all the teachers band together and ask the principal for things that is why unions are created - great idea..except ..... politicians and many others are against unions.  
And yes, many of these issues have arisen in large part because teaching is a woman’s profession and the problem endemic in teaching are issues that many women face in the workforce, politics and society.
So yes change needs to be made starting with supporting listening and acting upon the reflections and needs of those “in the trenches”rather than power or money, but isn’t that also just reflective of our society...
19+ year veteran with direct experience with 3 local districts and 8 principals[/quote]

And I have news for you. Women all over the workforce do what you are too afraid to do every day. They just don't have 100 other women to stand up and say the same thing. So get over yourself.[/quote]

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