How to handle a toxic school principal who abuses power

“Humor or I'll go nuts!”source ↗

“It's crazy out here guys”source ↗

“how can I communicate to my admin how disrespectful and unprofessional it feels when they create resources with AI?”source ↗

“I don't do well with confrontation (with adults) especially face-to-face. I get very nervous and tend to people please.”source ↗

“One of my kids went into a meltdown recently and bit through my aide's forearm when she stepped in, eight stitches, and by the time she finished the incident form the conversation had already moved to what she could have done differently.”source ↗

“My aide, a grown woman with her own kids, got asked whether she'd followed the hold protocol correctly.”source ↗

“I kid you not, in two separate evaluations of the three I've had since August, I was told that my students see me as too "chill" because I have a coffee cup all the time.”source ↗

“I've been teaching over 20 years and this is so insulting. I get that we have teachers that only have one or two grades in a gradebook so go deal with them individually. Why are you treating all of us like we're in kindergarten?”source ↗

“my principal in my previous district would constantly take all of our preps away and had us fill out a missed prep form so the office would make them up.”source ↗

“I strongly feel that this is sending the wrong message,that if a parent complains the child will get their own way.”source ↗

“I was talked over, told I was wrong and felt that I was being told how to do my job by people who have never done my job.”source ↗

“the meeting has left me extremely frustrated and annoyed that I don’t even want to be part of it any more.”source ↗

“i was their founding math teacher. i quit yesterday.”source ↗

“i had stellar classroom management and a documented track record of increasing math scores. i watched my colleagues struggle and be dismissed when they brought up concerns.”source ↗

“we were responsible for 120 kids across 4 sections, we were encouraged to use our lunch for tutoring, we were told afterschool tutoring won’t receive a stipend, we had no sub pay and had to sub almost every day.”source ↗

“How do you know where that line is?”source ↗

“I’ve had about ten observations so far this year and half have been really low scores.”source ↗

“It's week 4 now and I have kids who still don't have a grade in some classes. Admin keeps sending mass reminders to all of us that we should have a grade every week. TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T GRADING!!!”source ↗

“I hate the evaluation culture, they have to make up insane shit.”source ↗

“Has anyone had experience with an instructional coach being on their case all the time?”source ↗

“How do you deal with this type of stress?”source ↗

“They harp on you if you don't join in the 'wear xxx' days. They treat the teachers like they do the children. Plus, it's a way to publicly shame teachers without looking like the bad guy.”source ↗

“They’re “coaching you out” but I’m surprised you’re not on a TIP yet.”source ↗

“My principal is a micromanager, big time.”source ↗

“Today she literally was at the door window staring at kids and came in to reprimand them, disrupting the whole class by doing so, versus letting me handle my class.”source ↗

“Idk how to handle this.”source ↗

“I don’t get it and frankly it’s frustrating and confusing.”source ↗

“Yep, I've been told to my face that I should probably have scored higher on my last eval but they have to put some categories in for improvement or else they're (admin) evaluated poorly against it, it's just bs all around.”source ↗

“No, I had the stupid sticker because I do my job. That's the whole point of the post. They need to be going after these teachers that aren't doing their job instead of treating all of us like children.”source ↗

“Since August me and my coworkers are constantly getting so much shit for being human and making mistakes.”source ↗

“None of it is never enough. It’s so disheartening.”source ↗

“My hs principal was a Vietnam vet who looked like jack Nicholson from the shining and he used to sneak up on underage students and grab both their shoulders from behind as a "gag". Kept the job for all four years I was there.”source ↗

“The number of observations alone would make me leave. Sounds like a hostile work environment.”source ↗

“This is something I’m struggling with right now as well. Leadership at my school is embracing AI at every turn and personally I find it sickening. No idea how to broach the subject though because they take everything so personally”source ↗

“I worked for Summit in the bay area, and they exploited teachers, let students run the school, and fired me for organizing a union.”source ↗

“Personally, I will push back against anything that goes against my contract, quietly ignore unreasonable requests if I don't expect follow-up, and go along with the rest.”source ↗

“I was constantly micromanaged in my last job.”source ↗

“My boss is currently in a very intense, anxious, overbearing phase and seems to be pushing for more oversight across the board.”source ↗

“I’ve now been told that we also need to “beef things up” by introducing an additional weekly meeting.”source ↗

“I genuinely feel like it could become an unnecessary meeting for the sake of having another meeting.”source ↗

“If I do introduce it, though, I genuinely don’t know how I should structure or lead it without it becoming a longer repetition of the daily meeting.”source ↗

“The problem is that my boss wants me to request doctors notes for their FMLA appointments. My understanding is that this isnt legal.”source ↗

“I was hoping I could get some advice on how to handle this situation. I dont want to violate FMLA, but I also need my job and don't want to paint a target on my back or be accused of insubordination.”source ↗

“My plan now is to go to them with sources, but im worried they will just see me as being annoying or a problem child.”source ↗

“Just nervous given im so new to the company.”source ↗

“i have a coworker who has been here for around 3 months now and i noticed that she has been messing with the vinsolution CRM. one of the things being her messing with the advanced settings putting her name on all of the sticky round robin, giving her a BIG advantage on our leads even when she is not there.”source ↗

“even when she is not here and her time stamp leads are off she will still have the leads assigned to her as sticky round robin.”source ↗

“I’m like 90% sure I’m supposed to be a W-2 employee however I came on as 1099 over the course of the relationship.”source ↗

“the pay comes, but it’s not exactly steady and the benefit we agreed on they just randomly decided to just stop providing”source ↗

“How do I have this conversation with them without being either fired or let go because on one hand if they wanna screw me over, I’ll just pursue them legally.”source ↗

“That was the final straw.”source ↗

“I’ve started applying for other jobs, but now I’m wondering if I’m being irrational.”source ↗