Realistically, I need to be careful with the amount of information I put out. However, I am at my wits end.
I moved school in November of last year. The school is a train wreck. The head of department handed in his notice in December so when I joined I joined as his joint lead. I then took on the whole team and it’s a mess. We have 3 individuals that are very aggressive and don’t want to co operate with the department as a whole. I have 2 others that are doing whatever they want to and actually choosing not to teach. I’m exhausted. Literally I’m so unbelievably stretched I’m near enough falling asleep on my way home.
Yesterday we had a new and very senior member of staff join us as part of the team. They are very experienced and we’re looking for a new job so have now started here. Technically they don’t teach at their headship level but have agreed to do so until we have the new appointed member of staff join after Easter.
So I planned all of their lesson. Left the room readily resourced yesterday, then in a departmental meeting of 8 this individual looked directly at me and said “so where are my resources then” any I said “they’re in the cabinet, I mentioned that on the email” this individual then raised their hand at me as if to say I was over reacting and said “okay I was literally just asking”
This infuriated me. I already feel as though they think I’m incapable and I just didn’t like the tone. Given work has been really stressful lately I’m not sure if I’m over thinking now and being unreasonable. I later went and had a chat with them generally about their teaching experience etc, but I don’t know if just struck me as very rude.