r/TeacherTales

Many years ago I worked at a charter school teaching ELL. This guy was hired first as a data specialist, then became the resident principal, the assistant principal, all in one year while he was still in the administration program and didn’t have degrees yet.

First, he observed me. I had been teaching for 2 decades. I had just made the switch to ELL. The lesson was fine. But he gave it a low score. He said he wanted to see more ELL strategies. I said, “Like what?” He replied, “You tell me!” Then he said he didn’t know anything about ELL. He also told me to watch my tone with the kids because “I threatened to give one lunch detention.”

Meanwhile, his friend across the hall was telling her class to shut up. She grabbed glasses off a kid’s face and scratched him. She taught math WRONG! He backed her up and turned a blind eye. But gave me a hard time over petty crap. “But HOW are you going to teach it?!”

The guy downstairs that I pushed into had no control over his class. One day he yelled at the class to put their heads down. Half of them did. Some played with action figures. Others laid down in their chairs. There was no objective on the board and the bulletin boards were ripped. The place was a mess. The d-bag came in and looked around and said, “Mr. X! It’s so awesome in here! I’m soaking up the awesomeness!” And walked out. I was infuriated. The reason why was because the actual principal (who was busy trying to leave and on interviews) told the d-bag to recommend who to retain for the next year. Of course, the d-bag did not recommend me. But he recommended his friends! Because of this POS I had to go look for a new job. And he wasn’t even returning next year! Supposedly he had nine offers for jobs as an assistant principal (I absolutely call BS on that).

One other time I had these two kids for only ten minutes because their class took twenty minutes to get quiet in line before coming in from recess. So I gave them a short activity about idioms. The d-bag came in to tell me there was a grade level meeting later. Then he watched the kids do the activity. “What’s this?” He asked me. I told him. “How does it tie in?” I looked at him. “How does it tie into the curriculum?” I remembered the book they were currently reading in ELA class had idioms in it so I told him. “Can I see the book?” He asked. While I’m standing there, with the kids. I told him I’d show it to him later because I was busy with students. What the heck was his problem?

If you’re wondering what I did to get treated like this, the teacher who shared the room with me said that it was because one day he came in to tell me to cover a class. I asked him for how long (because I needed to know whether or not to cancel my ELL groups. ) But he took it as my complaining. So she thinks that what started it.

When he observed me again I got a better score but he write silly things just to have negative stuff on there. The stuff was so dumb I made him take it off.

I’m sorry this is long but remembering this jerk still pissed me off to this day!

Hi guys! Pa help naman ako. I’m a Social Studies Teacher. Kakaresign ko lang sa school na pinanggalingan ko kasi super toxic ng environment at admin. I have an experience teaching for 1 year. Ang mga tinuruan kong subjects ay AP 4,7,9, at 10. Naghandle din ako ngayon MAPEH 10. 3 SHS subjects UCSP, POL GOV at Trends. Naging Teacher Aid din ako doon at coordinator ng UN Event. Tapos palagi din akong ginagawang Emcee bukod pa sa mga administrative works. Na drain ako ng sobra. Feeling ko pinasan ko ang mundo as a Fresh Grad non. Pero thank god I survived. Minimum wage no work no pay. Power trip dito, pasa ng trabaho, at hindi maayos na mga katrabaho. Nakapagtake naman na ako ng LET kaso sa May 15 pa ang result. Naghahanap ako ng schools na may maayos na pasahod sana near our house lang Bagong Silangan, QC. May mga nakikita ako kaso need LET CERTIFIED. May mga naapplyan naman na ako. Pero walang reply sa email. Can you help me guys or recommend other work na related sa experience ko?

Hirap ng buhay ngayon. Kahit sideline wala akong maisip😭

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