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 ↗

“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 ↗

“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 ↗

“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 ↗

“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 ↗

“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 ↗

“That was the final straw.”source ↗

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

“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 ↗

“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 ↗