to think that if I were in any other job, this would be taken extremely seriously?

[dollydoops]

Today at work, a huge erect penis was drawn on my door in glue. This is the second time this has happened. Also, an unwrapped condom was left on the floor of my room. I was in tears and very upset. Still am.
Guess what my job is? And if this happened in your job, what would you expect to happen?

Par for the course in Secondary.

Doesn't mean you have to like it though.

Damn I thought for sure you were going to be a nun, gutted.

I'd be cross of course. But I don't tend to take things personally enough to cry. Where I work, I'd be a wet mess if I did. Do you know who did it. What sanction will they get?

I'm seriously pmsl @ 'prime minister of Italy'. Very droll.

Sorry you're upset OP - I wouldn't be and surely working in schools inures you to this kind of thing?

That is called sexual harrassment and I would expect an investigation at the very least, and if that investigation resulted in finding the guilty party then I'd expect them to be severely disciplined.

It doesn't matter what job you're in.

If the headmaster did it the governors would fire him.

I'd be upset. Others here are being un-empathic, IMO.
What happened the last time ?

I wouldn't cry over a picture of a penis and a condom on the floor...no I must admit.

That aside, did you find the perpetrators?

Unless it was the CoG?

Are Ofsted in? Did you get a 4 for a PSHE lesson?

All the suggestions are making me laugh! I think tbh I am a bit premenstrual- normally I wouldn't cry- but I don't often experience this level of nastiness, I usually have a good relationship with my classes. This is why I think I was so upset by it.

I think as a secondary school teacher you're being a bit naive to expect the children to not act up and I would expect you to be to deal with this and apply appropriate discipline. If you need senior staff to step in everytime there is conflict between you and a pupil you're never going to get the children's respect.

dolly - yes, it is disrespectful and sexist.

I work in a middle school and some of the things the boys there do and say really me (songs about anal sex etc). But it doesn't make me cry.

What subject do you teach?

I'd be more upset at not being able to lock my door/secure the room when I wasn't there. I take it you don't keep any valuables or personal stuff (about you or any of the students) in there? That would get to me, the never knowing what I might come back to find. (It could be worse, they could have shit on your desk or something...)

I didn't even have to read the post - the topic made it clear that you were a teacher. The rule regarding bring respected in your workplace doesn't apply to teachers.

In tears? You'd be inconsolable if you did my job, lol.

If it was the pupils who did it.. then par for the course really.. and certainly not something to get upset about.

If it was a colleague, then it is a completely different thing.

I wouldn't cry over a penis, penises aren't to be cried over (laugh, maybe?) but I might be upset to think someone was allowed to sexually harass me when I'm meant to be teaching them

Common enough in the last secondary school I taught in. Nothing ever happened unless you caught them red handed. Even then there were bigger battles to fight.

Yes definitely a different matter if it was a colleague.

Did it have a big spurt of jizz coming out of the top? It's just a crap picture of a cock, not a real cock.
Maybe you could hold an art class focusing on it and rip it to shreds for composition, use of colour and literal interpretation.

I think if it were me I'd get the perpetrators in a room and explain to them where they were being anatomically incorrect - at great length - and get them to draw better versions on the whiteboard till they got it right. Their ears might catch fire from the embarassment....

northern.

Did it have little sprouty hairs on the balls?

I'm a secondary teacher. I'd be cross and want to find and deal with the perpetrator. Upset? No, I don't think so. I tend not to take kids behaviour personally - they dislike the teacher (when they do - most don't) not me as a person.
ThisIsANickname haha! THat sort of thing doesn't happen in schools. most legislation to protect people doesn;t seem to apply to us.

Why are you assuming they're being nasty? They're being stupid, there's probably no malice in it. I'm not saying it's acceptable, but crying over it is a bit of an over reaction. How long have you been teaching?