I work part time in a school, since I started it has been getting progressively worse, lots of staff changes, no real structure, very good teachers leaving and being replaced by temp staff that stay a few terms then leave and so on.
I get a bit of attitude from the pupils but mostly they respect me and I used to love working there and enjoy my job. But recently I have been dreading going to work.
Last term I was attacked by a pupil, to cut a long story short I caught him spitting at a child and when I went over to intervene he spat in my face and started attacking the other pupils around him so I scooped him up and took him up to the heads office immediately. He punched, kicked and scratched me the whole way there and tried strangling me with the scarf I was wearing all in front of the other pupils.
When I eventually got him up to the office and someone else took over, I showed the head my injuries, as by now I was actually bleeding from both hands and her response was to show me her bite marks and scratches from a previous outburst from the same boy... That was that.
Today was the worst day ever, I got told to shut my mouth from one boy and then a fight broke out and I had to run over with the other adults to break it up and during the chaos my wrist got bent backwards and now I can hardly move it. I came home and had a good cry.
I am looking for another job but a term time job is quite hard to come by and I need the money so badly at the moment I have to stick it out until I have another secure job. But I am bloody miserable and am feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment. Surely I should feel safe at work but I don't.
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Bellini81 · 24/03/2014 15:58
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