My son was trying to kill himself. And he has Crohn's disease. I am a teacher and had saved my leave for years in case of an emergency like this. I took 5 weeks off back in September. My principal went through my records and put a disciplinary note in my file about not following expectations to record grades, even tho I was on leave.
They also tried to say I didn't follow my department protocols, but my department chair is a duplicitous piece of shit who never says what the expectation is, so I was never told what to do.
I took my union rep to the meeting because they lied to me about what the meeting was about. I did my homework. I had all the emails to demonstrate I was following expectations. He didn't care and put it in my file anyway. He blatantly interrupted me while I was trying to share my side of things (my union rep isn't very good), and blatantly told me when I pointed out that I was answering his questions but that he kept interrupting and I asked “do you want me to share my information with you”? He replied “honestly, no. I don't want to listen to you read that word for word”. Not only that he tried to get me to not tell anyone else in the school about the situation.
The last part was that I pointed out to him this was an incredible technicality to be dealing with since I have a spotless employee record. He tried to say that it was just standard practice on their end (it's not. I am well aware of teachers who break important rules and are ignored). I said, this wasn't how this had to be handled. And be tried to insist it was. That when I pointed out this is not how “family” works.
He was visibly flabbergasted. He said at that point he had said all he had to say.
Fuck that mother fucker. Fuck him. I have not once been disciplined at that job in seven years and he went back 5 months to find something that happened while I was on FMLA and would not even listen to what I had to say.
Here's the kicker. A few years ago we worked in a different district at different schools. I worked at an ALE for kids who are struggling at regular school. I always took their stories with a grain of salt, because I know what it feels like to be an angry teenager. I believed them, but I left room for a different pov. Nope. Those kids were right to the letter. He is an absolute piece of shit and if he got ran over by a truck tomorrow, I would go out and get a beer to celebrate. He has hurt so many of my students just because he loves rules. That's it. I've tried to stand up for the kids. And that may be why I got punished. The kids like me. They told him as much. I get zero parent complaints. But he hates anyone who stands up for people who are marginalized. He wants kids to sit in their seat, shut up, work their ass off to get good test scores to make himself look good. We'll see how that works out. Lol
Teachers, quit. You guys need to quit. I wanted to save the kids and the schools, but this is what they always do. They hire someone like him to keep everyone beat down and following orders. Just quit got Christ sake.
Anyway, they'll be lucky if I finish the semester.