Abused

I feel abused by my fellow teachers. I think it's sad when I don't want to get up and go to school in the morning because of the people I work with and not the kids I'm teaching. I just feel so used up by them. They seem to be incapable of doing anything for themselves so everything gets dumped on me because I don't say no.

Example 1: I teach a third grade reading group and then a 5th grade reading group. I really like my 2 groups and spend a lot of time each week planning my lessons so that I can meet all of their needs and make things more fun. The first week of school, in fact the Friday of the first week of school I get our school helper (it's hard to explain) in my room telling me that I'm going to get a group of 5 second grade girls from my crappy neighbor across the hall. I look at him very confused and he tells me that they're reading out of the third grade stuff so our principal has decided that I'm going to teach their lesson...while I have my third graders. Did I mention my third graders are about the hit the 4th grade level and the second graders are on the beginning of the 3rd grade stuff. Yeah, so this means that I'll have 3rd graders in my room for an hour. Then at 9 am while I still have the 3rd graders I'm going to have 2nd graders come in. At 9:30 the 3rd graders transition out to go to science and 5th grade come in for their 90 minutes of reading...did I mention I still have the 2nd graders. Basically what went down is my neighbor across the hall cried and complained that she doesn't know how she'll run 3 reading groups and the principal decided to ease her burden and add it to me. So now I teach 3 reading groups. 

Example 2: We hired a new teacher for 4th grade reading and writing. Well she didn't work out and quit. While she was on her way out she decided to let the principal know that yes some people were helpful but others just weren't. Apparently when she asked for help on something I didn't know about and said to her "I'm about to read the directions on it maybe you do the same and we'll figure it out later," was rude and not helpful and made her very upset which she felt a need to relay to the principal. The principal then decided to laugh it off but let everyone know anyway. This meant that my crappy neighbor across the hall used it as a time to say that I am abrupt and if you don't know me you might not understand it.

Example 3: My crappy neighbor across the hall wouldn't fix the lamination machine and instead told the principal I don't know how to do it ask me. So on my break I almost ripped my skirt on the machine trying to load it.

There's a theme here...my  fellow teacher across the hall sucks and for some reason she gets away with it. However I'm a freaking work horse for the school and get nothing in return but stress, anxiety and sleepless nights.