Teachers of Reddit, what's some behind the scenes drama you had to hide from your students?

Teachers dislike administrators who are not good at their jobs. Teachers are often limited by admin. I worked for a school where the administration harassed me on a daily basis. Literally called me up for unscheduled meetings at the drop of a dime, while I was teaching, and force me to sit outside of their office for 45 minutes to 1.5 hours as a group. Then, they would call me in and accuse me of the most insane things possible. Apparently, their standardized test scores were not going well so they tried to pin it on a handful of new, general education teachers. There's nothing quite like being forced to leave my class (and force another coworker being harassed to do coverage for me during her planning block on a weekly basis) to accuse me of allowing my students to grope me, of not showing up to work on time (I was putting in 10-12 hours per day and showing up at least 30 minutes before school began), and not teaching my students valuable things and blaming test scores on me (my students didn't even have standardized tests, but to be fair they made it so I couldn't teach my students at least once a week with these bullshit meetings).

What killed me was not how they treated me (although it caused a lot of issues and I had to go to therapy to work through it because it was extremely abusive). What was the worst was witnessing how the administration treated the students. There was no respect, too many rules (often made up at a whim - they were notorious for creating new suspension policies without informing anyone). They would accuse my students of everything. These kids were extremely impoverished. So, not only do the students have a very scary and unstable home life, they choose to come to school every day to try to make a positive change in their lives and are harassed by administrators. I literally had a student suspended for three days because she answered a phone call from her daycare where she dropped her son off every day during her lunch break because they had a strict no cellphone policy. They told her she can either lose the cell phone for a week or she could choose to be suspended for three days and keep her phone. Since she didn't want to risk losing communication with her son for an entire week (weekend included), she was forced to take the suspension. That's the kind of degrading, bullshit rules, they placed with reckless abandon on their students.

Ultimately, all of the administration was fired, but it took like 5 years of this cycle of teacher harassment and unethical leadership before central office moved all of the admin to different schools. They were not even fired. So what happened? They were not releasing survey results. That's it. They weren't moved out of their jobs because of their behavior towards students or teachers, they were moved because of some bullshit survey issue.

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