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Just why haven't I killed myself yet?

I'm on my third week of vacation and I just find myself dreading my return to the workplace. It SUCKS. And here's why:

1. The principal and the senior teacher are SISTERS.
2. They hate me, as a matter of fact, they just hate anyone that's female, moderately good-looking, young and smart so that includes the clerk and the other young teacher.
3. My salary is less than $688 USD a month, out of which I pay off a bank loan and third in rent.
4. The twister-sisters have a habit of trying to bully the young staff members out of vacation days. For example just days before the vacation started they called the clerk on her day off and DEMANDED she come back to work because they couldn't figure out which key on the main ring opened her office. The principal even put her sister on the phone to inform the absent clerk that SHE saw her in taxi that morning and therefore she knew she was in the area.
5. The rest of the staff are a bunch of old, ugly, oppurtunistic, backstabbing, bitchy, bible-thumping she-cattle.
6. The children were all raised by television so teaching them is like squeezing blood out of stone.
7. Even when I get off work I get no respect because I'm negroid. Indian clerks (Indians for years have been trying to establish a caste system in my country that puts themselves above negroes) follow me around in stores and more than once I've been the only one in the line/store/whatever to go through the embarrassment of having someone paw through my things searching for drugs or whatever. I'm not even allowed to get mad or raise my voice because it somehow "proves" that "we people" aren't any good.

I'm thinking about migrating. Think there's anyplace that a girl like me can be happy?

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Wretched!
Submitted by PartTimeSlave on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 19:56.

That's simply horrible. In the US teachers get dumped on too. It's terrible that rock stars and athletes make more money than the teachers, who educate everyone's children. Is there any board to report the principle to?

Mais c'est la vie.

Is there any other school you could work at? It sounds like you're at a school you wouldn't want to stick with for the rest of your career. I would suggest a gifted school. It's far more fulfilling to be able to teach children who are eager to learn, than to try to pummel information into children who are raised to be obstinate and disrespectful (but then I guess that's everywhere).

My husband is in his 3rd year of College to become an English Teacher, and we fear being stuck with a low-paying school with terrible administration.

Hope you find something much better soon!

Best wishes,
Sarah

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Come to the U.S.
Submitted by wageslaveZ on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 00:46.

Wow, you're a teacher with a degree and you make less than I do a month... And I thought low-level social workers didn't make shit with a degree... Come on over here, at least you'll make 40 grand a year teaching only 9 months. Our idiotic, obstinate children are a breeze. But I'd take PTS's advice and teach gifted kids wherever you end up, they actually want to learn. I figure if I weren't born lower middle middle class and wasn't shoe-horned into the idiot factory/U.S. public school system, I probably would've amounted to something by now. Besides, U.S. school of choice teachers make more than those in the idiotic factory crowd. Take it as you will, keep it evil...

Young teacher, the subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking - she's so close now
This girl is half his age

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting
His car is warm and dry

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
[Back:] (Please don't stand so close to me)
(The Police)

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Hey wageslaveZ,
Submitted by Bonita on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 13:31.

Love your blogs and I don't mean to argue with you, but where do teachers in the US make 40 grand??? I have several teaching friends and it's more like half of that! (18-25 per year seems to be the norm here. Of course, I'm currently in the Southeast, so...

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make 40 grand to start in teaching
Submitted by bunny379 on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 23:29.

New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut

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