cookies??
maybe it's just me, but . . .
So I work in the science department of a private school. I don't teach exactly; I am responsible for preparing materials for the science labs, working with students on their science projects, etc. The other day I walk into one of the classrooms and the students are huddled around the teacher, watching one student massage the back of her neck. Not really THAT strange in the grand of scheme of things. The teacher happens to be the department head, she is relatively young (maybe 30), a workaholic, and appears to like the attention she receives from her students a little bit too much. I often see her having lunch with them, conversing with them between classes, and generally it seems as if she is trying to "fit in" with them, though on their level, (i.e. as a teen-ager). And to top it off, a couple weeks back, I see her bring in a tray of homemade cookies for one of her grade 10 classes. Sure, a nice gesture, maybe for a kindergarten teacher!! She comes across to her students (and me) as being extremely laid back. Then yesterday I hear her say to her students something like "Oh I wish I was more laid back in high school and university-I worked WAY too hard and didn't have any fun." In other words, I'm guessing she was a super-nerd. Now she's trying to go back and do it all over again. I think it is kind of pathetic. But then again, I have been feeling rather curmudgeonly today.
Anyways, I have always found her off-putting. In the strange hierarchy that is a high school, I don't really have a boss; but she would definitely qualify as my supervisor. And she did make up 5o% of the committee that hired me a few months back. It is one of those fake, cordial work relationships that most of us have to deal with. It could be worse. Eventually, I'll get on to my former graduate school supervisor, who was such an egocentric, conceited jerk, that I quit my Ph.D. A blessing in disguise though.
So I work in the science department of a private school. I don't teach exactly; I am responsible for preparing materials for the science labs, working with students on their science projects, etc. The other day I walk into one of the classrooms and the students are huddled around the teacher, watching one student massage the back of her neck. Not really THAT strange in the grand of scheme of things. The teacher happens to be the department head, she is relatively young (maybe 30), a workaholic, and appears to like the attention she receives from her students a little bit too much. I often see her having lunch with them, conversing with them between classes, and generally it seems as if she is trying to "fit in" with them, though on their level, (i.e. as a teen-ager). And to top it off, a couple weeks back, I see her bring in a tray of homemade cookies for one of her grade 10 classes. Sure, a nice gesture, maybe for a kindergarten teacher!! She comes across to her students (and me) as being extremely laid back. Then yesterday I hear her say to her students something like "Oh I wish I was more laid back in high school and university-I worked WAY too hard and didn't have any fun." In other words, I'm guessing she was a super-nerd. Now she's trying to go back and do it all over again. I think it is kind of pathetic. But then again, I have been feeling rather curmudgeonly today.
Anyways, I have always found her off-putting. In the strange hierarchy that is a high school, I don't really have a boss; but she would definitely qualify as my supervisor. And she did make up 5o% of the committee that hired me a few months back. It is one of those fake, cordial work relationships that most of us have to deal with. It could be worse. Eventually, I'll get on to my former graduate school supervisor, who was such an egocentric, conceited jerk, that I quit my Ph.D. A blessing in disguise though.
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