Marjorie, there is nothing that can be done about my sight, I have macular degeneration, incipient cataracts & a tent in my left eye, combine that with the hospital having 'lost' me, despite the numerous phone calls I have made asking for an appointment that was due last June.
The boy who told me he had sweaty balls was questioned & denied it, it seems I made it up, his mother was phoned, she assured the teacher that her son never lies, so it must be me lying. It is such a shame that 60% of the staff spend 90% of their time dealing with 10% of the pupils!
Doris appears to by getting stranger by the day, today she had a scarf wrapped round her head, leaving just a slit for her eyes, saying she was cold. I'm very torn, I am worried about her, she seems to be losing the plot, but then her inability to do her job affects the rest of us who have to pick up the slack, the last 2 people who left were not replaced & we have all had to take on extra work that they were doing so to be expected to do her work as well is a bit much.
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oh dear. public service is never boring. Poor Doris. I sat today for 15 minutes with a shiny carboard hat on my mouth so I looked like a bird. once someone noticed and laughed my work was done and I had managed to lift the mood in the team. maybe I am odd!
I too could recount many tales of the LOVELY little darlings. I worked in as a teaching assistant in a failing secondary school and was often subjected to verbal abuse.
One of the best (ha, ha) was when I was lent over helping a student and a boy in the row behind sniffed the air and said "do you use toilet paper ....?"
I don't think times have changed much.
Keep your wicked sense of humour Hester and brave outlook on life and you will come out the other side.
Kathy x
that is not a good situation to be in. Can you get a transfer to another school, or is it a case of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?
Gill in Canada
It is my experience that unfortunately these "little darlings" are very different at home, and are usually mortified if and when their parents see them in the act.
They are all big and buff in front of their mates, with an audience, and often it is the support staff - such as mealtime assistants or classroom assistants - who bear the brunt of this, and get paid the least.
In a GOOD establishment, support staff are seen by the children to have the same status as teaching staff and management, but this is rare.
More often, verbal - or physical - abuse of support staff is seen as a lesser crime, and that is appalling.
And these hardworking staff are outside in the rain listening to the testosterone-fuelled barracking or oestrogen-challenged bitching. The fights take place at break and lunch time too: just where badly managed schools use their most vulnerable staff.
Hester - you are a wonderful woman.
You have brought up children who would not dream of treating others like this.
You deal daily with other adults who do not cherish you - but WE DO.
XXXXXXX
Hear hear
I second everything that fostermummy has said.
Sue xx
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