I received comments on my professionalism that I find accusatory and harsh for the following reasons. At no time was I allowed to discuss the complaints, accusations, or misperceptions made against me. I was talked at and then disregarded. I was told that I take teaching too personally which I find to be a shame. Teaching is personal. These young people are the future of our nation and as a theatre teacher I am in a unique position to teach the whole student about life, emotions, coping, lose, happiness, and everything else that is included in the performing arts. It is encourage by our own “Jag Nation” and “Jag family” mottos for me to look at the students like they are our children and I treat them with respect and understanding. I’ve never seen them as buddies or, just as offensively, numbers filling seats.
Because I take my job personally I have …show more content…
They come to me when life seems too hard and when they have a joke to tell. I see 140 or more students a day and have 200 in and out of my program. 3 made unsubstantiated complaints against me. Those same three were interviewed plus 3 other students that confided in me that they felt like the admin was bating them into telling some “issue” that they were supposed to have seen. The students stated that during the interview process the admin broke confidentiality by telling the students of the complaints against me and that I “blur the line” between teacher and friend. Both of which he had promised me only days before that he would not say. He then had a 45 minute evaluation with me in which I was only given the opportunity to speak twice and only until he cut me off. This same admin uses Mrs for my name when I have asked him not to on countless occasions. It is disheartening to think that a learning moment and a document that could have been used to better me as a teacher was used against me for some unknown
Because I take my job personally I have …show more content…
They come to me when life seems too hard and when they have a joke to tell. I see 140 or more students a day and have 200 in and out of my program. 3 made unsubstantiated complaints against me. Those same three were interviewed plus 3 other students that confided in me that they felt like the admin was bating them into telling some “issue” that they were supposed to have seen. The students stated that during the interview process the admin broke confidentiality by telling the students of the complaints against me and that I “blur the line” between teacher and friend. Both of which he had promised me only days before that he would not say. He then had a 45 minute evaluation with me in which I was only given the opportunity to speak twice and only until he cut me off. This same admin uses Mrs for my name when I have asked him not to on countless occasions. It is disheartening to think that a learning moment and a document that could have been used to better me as a teacher was used against me for some unknown