Categories: uncategorized
Date: 07 March 2006 20:16:24
well i thought over the weekend about writing on my series of long runs about the lovely bright but cold weather, the widllife (an otter no less), the people, the lanscape and our industrial heritage down the canal, but as usual i never got round to it.
i see the previous entry was rather negative too so it seems a shame not to mention all the above which invigorated and inspired me before entering unto another negative rant.
you see i'm a bit fed up with the education system in this country and the way its managed... not because i have any kids but because i'm married to a teacher, now deputy head in fact.
we used to joke that every day she would come back from school and tell me a story that made me wonder why anyone would want to be a teacher, politics, power struggles, arrogance, incompetence, physical abuse its all there... and that doesn't even get as far as actually teaching the kids which to all intents and purposes is the easy bit.
'we' joked about it.... i harboured a fear that in fact i really meant it. the local authority seem to do nothing but take the piss.. the interview process, the equal rights hoops they pretend to jump through, the contract are all so bizarre i often wonder how any court would be able to uphold them if they were challenged.. the problem is, nobody does, teachers are institutionalised from conception into the way things are.
i could go on.. but what angers me most tonight is that after many years of a benevolent head not progressing the school (lovely chap tho') and more lately a new head who seems to have done nothing but throw things out and screw up the budget (save a large amount of money to refurbish her office) whilst neglecting to develop several key strategy documents.... my wife has ended up in charge due to injury & 'stress' of this new head.
so for the past month or so i have more than usual lost my wife on many evenings & weekends to school work, doing the heads job and working on the strategy documents from scratch. on a saturday for example we would have a lovely relaxed time pottering about, looking at sorting the garden out and having multiple cups of tea at various garden centres.... whilst sunday was put aside for going to school & school work which brings about a complete change in character, stress and shortness of temper.
i'm beginning to be fed up with the stupidity of the local authority and that it effects me... and my marraige. not impressed.
not only this but having insisted for the past month or so that she wasn't acting as the head whilst insisting she make up for the ill heads deficiencies in strategy documents and other areas.. you'd have thought some thanks or gratefulness from the authority... but no.. having now recognised (in official status & pay) the job she is doing they've decided its not good enough and they don't like her management style.
i'm anrgy
i'm annoyed
i'd happily have her quit.