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Subject: RE: [MK8]NMR - VENT - getting dumped on

From: Shirley Nichols

Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:07:20 -0500

Denise...I'm not a 2nd teacher but am one for trying to help my colleagues =
and being flexible. However....this 'lady' is way over the top!! A teaching=
friend once told me to learn to proudly use the word "no," with no expla=
nation or reason. If the requester persists, she said to add, "I just c=
an't do that right now," still without explanation or reason. I think som=
etimes folks like your co-teacher need responses in the simplest form possi=
ble. They are kind of like the children who try to wear down their parents=
, succeed, and then try it on us. They just have to learn that no means=
no!

How can she double up on classes and still be in teacher-student ratio? Sou=
nds like a bigger problem to me.

Good luck! And stand tall..."Just say no!" (sorry, couldn't resist that o=
ne)

Shirley in AR (only 5 more class days for me, and 2 1/2 months in AR, t=
hen to Texas!!)

snmusic@hotmail.com

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:29:42 -0400
> Subject: [MK8]NMR - VENT - getting dumped on
> From: theduchess7@gmail.com
> To: mk8list@musick8.com
>
> Are any of you 2nd teachers in Music and get dumped on......a lot?
>
> Most of you are aware that I teach in 3 schools on the traditional and
> year round schedule. I get along with everyone except one other music
> teacher (my worst school) and the strings teacher (at the same
> school).
>
> I share a room with the strings teacher and she never picks up after
> her classes, doesn't share and steals (takes) my things. I can hardly
> wait to get to school to see what else has been damaged or stolen!
>
> Anyway, the other music teacher combines her classes so she gets extra
> planning. I don't do it because I don't feel like it is fair to me or
> that the kids are getting a good music education. Today, 5 minutes
> before class I was asked to take her 2 classes with mine while she
> conducted K graduation rehearsal!!!! That is 3 classes of inner city
> kids who don't like to listen! I didn't want to but I took them.
>
> I am not at the school Tuesdays or Fridays. Yay! She wants me to take
> her 2 or 3 classes Wednesday @ 12:30. I told her I couldn't because
> that was my ONLY planning for the week and I needed that time. It is
> only 30 minutes. I could take them at 1:00 if she really needed me
> to. She blew up and bullied me like usual etc. I won't be surprised
> if I get called in but I'm tired of being bullied around. I have got
> to get out of the school next year. I hope that the options that have
> been told to me can make me leave!
> --
> Denise in SC
> NBCT-EMC Music, 2004
> AOSA Chair Charlotte 08 Signs/Certificates
> AOSA SC Foothills Chapter President-Elect 08-10
> theduchess7@gmail.com
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