Wednesday REALLY stressed me out. At the end of the day, I sent an email to the principal asking him for help in setting boundaries.<\/p>\n
Then I got in a note in my box telling me of a meeting with him at noon. I thought it was in response to my email, but no, it was in response to the incident in my classroom on Wednesday. Principal said that there would be a meeting in his office, 4:00 pm on Friday with the other teacher, myself, him and the associate principal of instruction. <\/p>\n
Seems the other teacher was very upset and angry with me and was threatening to "take me out". Seriously, he said that twice. I do know how to handle these situations, taught well in AFROTC in college, and again in tech support at TI. Basically the customer is never wrong.<\/p>\n
I am seeing a PhD psychiatrist right now due to the stress at the end of the last school year and something we talk about a lot is setting boundaries. I was already booked to see him last night, and he reiterated that position. Husband felt the same way. And of course I know it.<\/p>\n
The best way to win in a confrontation, is to make the other person feel that they won. In fact, it’s even basic clicker training. I’d already decided that I needed to apologize for her hurt feelings and acknowledge that perhaps I should have taken the issue out in the hall. However, I do know that after this incident, no one in my sixth period class is going to pull out a cell phone, and probably no adult.<\/p>\n
To my surprise, shortly after 8:00 am this morning the other teacher showed up in my room and walked to talk to me. I was very taken aback since she’d threatened me, but I allowed her to stay and sit down, and she was willing to leave a student working in the classroom who needed help. I was glad I had someone there to get help if I needed it.<\/p>\n
I started by apologizing for her hurt behavior and that I should have discussed with her in the hall.<\/p>\n
She started then by complimenting my classroom management skills and apologizing for her behavior, especially her conversation with the principal. Of course, all is forgiven and I did ask her for help in learning to deal with people.<\/p>\n
Mentioned us computer types would prefer working in the basement with a room for of computers and please throw us snickers once in a while — a combination of my shrinks classification and my husband’s.<\/p>\n
Man is life fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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