I am a teacher and have been for around 10 years. I've always loved my job and have enjoyed making a difference through teaching. Our previous head left in Summer and our new head started in september.
She is a real ball-braker. Has already found weaknesses in TAs and is already doing what she can to get them out. Although i've always had good observations and my teaching as always been ok i am feeling under immense pressure to dot every single i and cross every single t which in teaching i find absolutely impossible. My inbox is just never ending and i feel like im drowning.
We as teachers have had huge amounts of pressure put on us and i spend hours and hours out of school hours working as well as bringing up 2 children and running our family home.
My half term will consist of working for most of it and getting stressed about the next half term.
I know if her previous school she 'goit rid' of several staff on competancy and had a couple on longterm sick when she left.
She makes me very very anxious and i don't trust her at all. She has made it quite clear that she stands for nothing and her ONLY priority is results and the children.
Although nothing yet has happened already some teachers are brown nosing and its working whillst the rest of us are plodding on waiting for the stab in the back. She's already had people in (including myself) to talk to and make clear that if we are not with her we are against her. I know that because of the job teaching is it would be easy for her to start picking at little things and making holes into everything in order to get you on competancy.
I've just finished for half term and instead of relacing about my impending weeks break i'm feeling sick, not being able to sleep.
I would love to just hand my notice in but financially this just isn't possible. I'm not sure really what i'm expecting from this but i'm just so unhappy after 10years of a wonderful head to have it replaced with this uncompasionate woman.