Am I strange or do is this the normal?

[imthewallrus]

Genuine question here because I'm starting to think im being too familiar... I have started a job this week as a classroom assistant in a school ( im loving it) as it's a high school, im always moving about during the day and in the mornings before I officially start there are teachers on the front doors and corridors. Now this is were I think I'm maybe the weirdo but I find most teachers completely blank me when I'm passing ie turn away in an attempt to avoid saying hello. This is so alien to me because I'm
Used to being treated like an adult and other staff members greeting or at the very least saying hello ( or even a nod) as they pass . Is this just me being too familiar I just thought it was courteous to do this. Am I wrong? Or do teachers see classroom assistants as beneath them?

a head of department commented that someone in my role couldn’t possibly have a better engagement ring than hers

What an odd comment- it’s not as if you paid for the ring yourself, out of your own TA wages

Yep very odd, she just wanted me to feel small... it was during a staff debrief, I wanted the ground to swallow me up. Many years later and more experience under my belt, she defo wouldn't get away with a comment like that 🙄

How awkward @Baystar sounds like she was just a mean spirited person who wanted to piss on your parade!

I can’t stand it when staff pull rank to make someone feel small. It’s usually some sort of deep insecurity within themselves, but still so unnecessary.

Did you go on the date? 😂

You are far too new to be worried about this. They probably don't know who you are. Just smile at them then as yoy get to know them move to hello.

Teaching staff are some of the rudest people I have ever met so I'm not surprised to read your experience at all OP.

I'm a TA in a primary and all the teaching staff are lovely, the staff room at break and lunch is always a real mix of conversations and people and you couldn't look in and know who is in which role. I'm sorry you've had this experience.

A school locally to me, at the request of some of the teaching staff, asked the TAs to wear a uniform (it’s fairly common place where I am now, but this was some years ago), as some people were put out that the TAs clothes were nicer (and their cars too) than the teachers. Many noses were out of joint that some of the TAs were only ‘working for pocket money’.

This came straight from the mouth of a member of the teaching staff…

Blimey, aren’t they supposed to at least attempt to be good role models in front of their students?

I did work experience as part of teacher training and this wasn’t my experience.

I just found I had very little in common with the teachers who were all much older than me.
They generally talked about politics and their own dc/elderly parents in the staff room while I was nursing a hangover after a weekend on the piss, so not sure they liked me particularly. Don’t blame them looking back!

They had to change their tune though, when I turned up to audit the school's finances 😂

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This with bells on