This is a work rant.
My co-worker is an asshole and i had her figured out before I even started working in my new room. She is twice my age and thought because I am young and seem sweet, I would surrender all my power to her and she would run the classroom the way she wanted to, but the thing is, I am the head teacher and her ideas make absolutely no sense!!
Before I started working in that room, there was no morning snack which is a violation to our accreditation - we have to offer 2 meals and one snack or two snacks and one meal - since we only offer lunch and no dinner, we have to have a morning snack.
Now our gym/outside time is from 8:30-9:30, breakfast ends at 8:15 so there is literally no time to have the snack other than around 10ish, but she keeps complaining EVERY SINGLE DAY that we cannot have snack SO EARLY because the kids are still full from breakfast but we also cannot have it this LATE because lunch is served two hours later. I have to offer snack, and 10 is the only time that works - which pushes lunch to 12 instead of fucking 10:45 like she had before I started, who eats lunch at 10:45????
She will complain every single day how eating lunch so late is such a bad idea, because the girl who comes in to relieve me so I can get a child off the bus is now not able to help put the children down for nap, when she is only in the room so I can get a child off the bus!! The girl does not have to do a single thing while I am out to get the child (which only takes 5 minutes), but since she is a good co-worker she will help. On Friday she said she is so super sad that our lunch is so late because now the girl does not put the children to sleep like she is supposed to, so I stepped up and said that this is not why she is here, she is only here so I can leave the room, technically she could leave right when I come back. I got loads of huffing and puffing, as well as a post on facebook saying she is "so done with all the BS" and defriended me.
I am so done with her BS, because I literally ask her her opinion every day about things before I change them or do them, because I want her to feel included and she will say she agrees but then talk shit about me behind my back to other coworkers and tell them how she hates the changes, when I specifically make it a point to ask her.
She also hates the children. Like hates them. They are not allowed to cry, they are not allowed to have accidents and if they do, she yells at them. She yells at crying children to stop crying, who does that? One concerned mom asked me if we really had a rule that the children cannot poop into their underwear posted in our bathroom because her daughter was too scared to tell a teacher she had an accident because she was scared to get yelled at - WHAT THE FUCK DID I GET INTO??
I love my room, I love the children and the afternoons work so flawlessly, but my mornings are so incredibly stressful. I reported all that she does to my supervisor and she said I need to have a sit down with her first before they get involved, but I literally have talked to her since day 1 and I am so done with constantly explaining why I do things the way I do only to have her agree with me to my face and complain about it behind my back.
She was the reason the other head teacher left, she was the reason why many many many people quit. I don't want to quit, I think she needs to leave my room.
I will tell you to document document document. Take a screen shot of her FB comment.. Schools hate that
I am sorry you have to deal with an asshat that really doesn't give a crap about the children. That just puts my panties in a bunch both as a school employee and a parent.
Bottom line, is you need to follow the rules and you need to do what is best for the kiddos.. Tell her you are sorry you think its BS, so maybe she needs to move on...