u/Temporary-Stick-8864

Quite frustrated with my school atm. I am covering a person that has taken a career break, no idea if they plan to extend or not, or if they are stepping away altogether. The person isn't that far off retirement from what I know. Principal told me twice over the past 2 weeks she wanted to talk to me about what's happening next year. Unprompted, she is the one who said it to me.

Since then I haven't got any notification of a meeting. I've sent an email and tried to catch her in her office, to no avail.

There are a few others waiting for word on next year. One finally got a meeting with the principal a few days ago and it was a nothing meeting, just that roles would be posted and the teacher was encouraged to apply. Nothing specific about her subjects or anything, and no indication of when the roles would be posted. Such nonesense, I have been in two other schools and they gave you a real heads up on what to expect, bad or good.

Anyone else dealing with something like this? Or is this just uniquely poor management.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/womens-football/2026/0511/1572766-racism-disciplinary-row-fallout-continues-in-connacht/

I saw an article earlier in the week about Mayo ladies wearing no racism tops for the connacht final. Didn't realise it was a dig at this Galway player and the fallout from a club game.

A very tricky one to handle, and I have seen both sides of something like this before. Ive seen/heard a player be racially abused while I was a spectator at a men's senior game and nothing was done about it, with the opposition team claiming it never happened. Ive also seen a weird local "reporter" make up an accusation that an opposition manager was shouting abuse at a young player on our team. None of us heard anything and the young player herself didn't hear anything. To the point that the club had to make a statement clearing the opposition manager of any wrongdoing and that the club had no connection to this "reporter".

Having experience of coaching and dealing with the disciplinary processes in our county, I can say these processes are run by volunteers and are quite poorly managed. Like some comically bad running of the processes, which basically allow anyone to get off on a technicality because they cannot seem to follow their own procedures correctly.

It can be very hard to come down on who was right and who was wrong in these cases. Only the people there on the day will probably know what really happened.

Bit of a rant

Racism Fallout LGFA