First staff meeting of the year. Oh god. Totally ruined my night. Our new teacher manager has confused the hell out of a lot of people. Our new Principal does not inspire confidence, and the AP seems to be doing nothing. (She was passed over for the Principal's job.)
Twice, I rephrased what the Principal said because no one had a clue what she meant. I said, "Are you saying that we are buying new curriculum?" The answer was yes, which is good. But if I hadn't asked, I am not sure many folks would have realized that that is what she meant. I sure wasn't sure.
The manager said something like the EL working group will adapt our current curriculum for EL students. I asked her if she really said that because it would mean a massive effort and take way more teacher time than anyone had scheduled. She was like, no, I don't know, maybe, I don't know. I looked at the Principal, and she said, no, we would be buying EL curriculum.
They basically said they were going to go against the contract in scheduling meetings to prep for our accreditation review. (They won't. If they do, someone will report them to the union and it will cost them money.)
Anyway, the teachers were just floored. I mean, to even act as if they could command us to work beyond our contract is naive. People won't do it. It takes leadership to get them to attend meetings they are contractually obliged to attend. It won't happen. They would get crucified by THEIR bosses if they tried. But they shocked the shit out of a bunch of teachers.
God, there was a ton more stuff like that. It wasn't a conspiracy to fuck teachers. It was just massive incompetence laced with stupidity. God help us.
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