View from Convento de Cristo once a Templar stronghold

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

What a cluster**** this school is.  It is so damned unorganized.  The teachers for the most part are very good but the administration is all over the place.  There are still no set schedules for classes because somebody, (no one knows who), made up a schedule without checking with all the various people involved and it doesn't work, so it is now being redone.  The classrooms and offices were changed around to accommodate someone, (no one knows who), but of course they didn't check with all those involved and the new set-up doesn't work for everyone so now that is being reorganized.  The poor custodian is running around like a wild man moving things from one part of the school to the other.  The lease on the school desktop computers ran out and as they are going to ipads for the students, they didn't renew it.  They forgot to consider that many teachers and other employees need desktops!  In the library we are taking turns using one computer when we need two and could use three.  I'm on the list.  (The upside is that I had the really handsome electrician under my desk reinstalling my computer hook-ups because they had ordered them all taken out over the summer.)  I still haven't seen my contract because when I arrived, though the gal in HR had prepared it, the Headmaster hadn't signed it and when he finally did, (this morning), he didn't bother to read it or tell HR that I am full-time this year so the contract still had me down as part-time.  It has to be redone.  The powers that be decided over the summer that the primary school teachers should be with their students all day, including teaching their specials classes, going to recess and eating lunch with them, (some crap about "holistic teaching"). This move permitted the school to lay off all the aides and reduce the hours of the specials teachers.  Of course this leaves the teachers no time for prep work or breaks and probably violates all sorts of labor laws.  Well the teachers put up such a stink that that has all now changed, (less than two weeks into school), so now they are scrambling all over the place trying to find people to cover recesses and lunch duties and specials.  I'm hiding in the library.  I think admin should work on their communication skills...  xxoo me

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