I started teaching this year, and I’ve been called in for a meeting after school tomorrow to discuss “the content of a conversation” from last week in one of my classes.
I am feeling incredibly anxious about this.
One side of the coin is that it’s probably an off the cuff comment I made that’s been taken the wrong way, it isn’t that serious and I’m just being asked to explain my side of the story.
The other side is why couldn’t this be an email, it’s serious enough to need an in person meeting (with an optional support person), but not serious enough to conduct it before school starts tomorrow.
I don’t recall anything particularly bad I’ve done other than accidentally swearing in a class, and yelling at the older kids for not listening. I can admit that maybe I have gotten too frustrated in my classes and it could be more about my tone than anything else, but the email feels so sinister and I feel physically sick not knowing what the meeting is about, and I am so worried I have catastrophically f*cked up my first teaching job.
Has anyone been called in for something like this before? Do I need to be worried? Am I over reacting?