moose;385238 wroteYou teach school where the students are the adults and the staff are all in fucking kindergarten?
Our administration is pretty hands off but if we need more desks or a classroom change, administration handles it and fuck anyone who wants to piss and moan about it. It is about the students isn't it?
About ten years ago administration thought it was pretty smart to oversubscribe the classrooms by 1 or 2 students because invariably 1 or 2 students would fail to attend the class. Until it was pointed out by the union that overfilling labs was a safety and fire violation.
the administration here is just completely disorganized.
a lot of the teachers are extremely selfish and only care about their jobs and not actually teaching students. i've literally made comments to the whole staff during meetings that i'm amazed that no one puts the students first.
for example, we had to write up some general guidelines for all the teachers to follow. i took it upon myself and wrote a 4 page document that i sent to all the teachers so we could all discuss it, make any changes and then sign off on it.
when we all got together to discuss it, practically half the staff was complaining about "all these new rules" (which there weren't any new ones, i just put the old ones onto paper), and how this might "make our students leave and therefore we'd lose our jobs" (it's an adult school and we have to advertise for students to attend - if they don't come we don't work). i get that, but it's still a school and education should always come first imho.