High school principal goes on 3-hour rant reprimanding teachers for taking sick days and not working after hours: 'She also made us stand for the whole thing and clap for her after every point'

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  • I swear some people need to be put back in the classroom just to get a reality check. In what was supposed to be a 30 minute meeting but lasted 3 full hours, our principal rambled about the following:
  • 1. Don't take sick days. She never took sick days. She took a single day off for her father's funeral and never anything else! Take some medication and come in because the kids need you! (She has missed many days worth of time because she leaves early for "family emergencies" every week, and she usually leaves before we're done with bus duty.)
  • 2. If you don't like her expectations, then leave lateral transfer opens in February and it won't hurt her feelings if you don't care enough about the kids to put in the work (repeated at least 9 times that if you transfer it's because you don't care about the kids and aren't willing to work hard for them)
  • 3. repeated several times, including in the email she sent Sunday night "YES you will have to work off contract. YES you will take work home. NO you will not get enough time for everything during the day. YES you will be expected to do it anyway. Our (school) scholars deserve it!)"
  • 4. We will now pretest monday, conference about the test Tuesday and Wednesday, do small group remediation on Thursday, and test on Friday. When are we supposed to teach? Who knows! She then loudly repeated "Fact check me on this, y'all! It WORKS.
  • I've DONE IT. I was in the classroom at every level and my scores were ALWAYS GREAT" (We have fact checked her. She was in fact, not great, being why she never stayed anywhere for more than 2-3 years and became admin after her second school teaching.)
  • 5. She had a powerpoint but she "sh from the hip" because "God called her to speak on this". We then got reprimanded for not following the instructional framework to the minute because, again, "THIS STUFF WORKS, PEOPLE." and a lecture on being timely and using timers in your lessons
  • 6. There is no more grace. Anyone not doing every (often contradictory) thing she says will be put on a PIP, which she emphasized keeps you from transferring.
  • She then gave herself a round of applause for giving us "the gift of time" to work in our rooms. Which we did not have. Because all of our working in the room time was swallowed by her insane ramblings.
  • She also made us stand for the whole thing and clap for her after every point. Even cult leaders usually get you bought in before this level of crazy comes out.
  • Those of you who complain about your union dues, this is what you deal with when you don't have them. No matter how weak your union is, I can't imagine you'd have to deal with this.
  • A woman dressed in black speaks to a colleague in front of a white board at school.
  • Exact-Key-9384 · I'm sorry, she made you STAND? For a THREE HOUR meeting? Union or not, there's got to be someone over this n head. Go to them.
  • coolbeansfordays Everyone should put in for a transfer. Then the principal can explain why to the Superintendent. Or someone can alert the media. That would be a story in my town, "entire staff requests transfer".
  • Open Confidence_9349 Burner phone, record meeting, sent anonymously to school board, news, pta...
  • whitterabitx that sounds unhinged. anyone in the room would leave stressed, frustrated and questioning their sanity. its a nightmare for staff morale

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