u/Legatus_Aemilianus

Hi all! I’m in a bit of a pickle so I thought I would turn to this sub again for advice. I teach in a private school and recently one of my colleagues has been extremely hostile and outright rude to me in our public interactions.

This all began because I asked her to not allow students to bring glitter and a few other things (she was giving them out to the students to work on some sort of class project) to my room when the period ended, and to instead keep them in their lockers or leave them in her room. The reasoning behind this is that the supplies would distract the students during my class, and they made a massive mess which took the custodians quite a while to clean up.

I had originally requested this in a staff group chat, but she completely blew up and rudely launched into a tirade of personal attacks accompanied by numerous spelling errors. The AP & all of the teachers are in this chat, and I’m honestly stunned that she behaved as unprofessionally as she did.

This teacher also regularly curses at the students, reeks of marijuana when she comes to school, and has told students that they do not have to listen to my classroom rules.

I do not want to engage in any sort of juvenile beef with her, but I am frustrated that I am dealing with an adult with worse emotional regulation than most of my students. Any and all advice would be most appreciated, thank you all again for your help!

Oh BTW I teach 5th grade

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Hi all. I really need some advice as idk how to handle this situation. I have a student in one of my classes, we’ll call him “Tyler.” Anyways, Tyler is one of the worst behaved kids in the entire school. He argues & talks back, has assaulted students in my class, regularly uses racial slurs, and has falsely accused members of staff & myself of inappropriate behavior.

Admin bends over for the parent at every opportunity. Every consequence I try to use to bring this kid to heel is thrown out. I tried getting him removed from sports & the mother bitched and that wasn’t an option. I tried getting him to write apology letters whenever he insulted a member of staff, the lady objected to that as well.

I finally settled on giving every student a daily participation grade. Naturally if a student disrupts the lesson, their grade suffers. This student was kicked out of class every day last week due to his behavior (it’s a private school so I can do that). As such, for his weekly grade he got a zero. Now she’s complaining about that as well and I’m honestly so sick of this shit. If admin forces me to get rid of yet another disciplinary measure, then I’m just going to write him up whenever he disrupts the class, but then I’m afraid I’ll be accused of “targeting.” What on earth do I do?

Any and all advice would be appreciated