Several years ago, my school system implemented an anonymous survey for teachers to complete rating their school and their administrator. While it sounds like a great idea, when people are cloaked with the veil of anonymity, they can become rather mean.
I'm all for good advice and suggestions that might help me improve myself and our school.
At my the school I worked in prior to my current school, I would receive comments suggesting that I check on when breakfast really started or that a weekly calendar would help with all the changes in the monthly calendar. There were comments I could use to benefit the teachers in the school.
Four years ago, I was moved to my current school and, at first, I was devastated by the move. I had heard about the morale issues at my new school and questioned if I was truly capable of making a difference. But I had no choice, so
I put on my big girl panties I moved to the new school with a good attitude and a determination to make things better.
At this new school, there are a lot of teachers with strong opinions, bad attitudes, and a resistance to anything new. I've seen teachers like this in other schools, however, not to this degree.
Which brings us back to the yearly anonymous surveys. I know I shouldn't take the comments to heart. Maybe I need thicker skin. But to say that I am on a witch hunt is just asinine
and besides, I took the stake down from the fire pit. The comments listed were just mean spirited and not at all intended to help make changes for the better. Then again, for some, the changes are what drive them to be so bitter.
Not all the comments were hateful. But the hateful comments were the ones to stand out.
They were mean enough to make me cry myself to sleep Friday night.It makes it hard to keep a great attitude every day.
Thank God the teachers are gone until the end of July. And it makes me wonder if I would be better off in the classroom. Or in another field
like possibly a fry girl. Right now, I just feel defeated.
Not a lot of thanks for working 10 to 12 hours (or more) a day. Trying to help the teachers. Always asking what is in the best interest of the students.
I wonder how the teachers would do if the parents could complete an anonymous survey on them.