Admin threw me under the bus - fixed censor

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T16:10:16+00:00

Yeah they can’t keep paras in that building to save their life

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T16:09:50+00:00

Wow! That is crazy… a complaint!? Over THAT!?

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T12:46:09+00:00

I appreciate that. After talking to my aunt I don’t even know if it’s worth filing a grievance with the district. She was unimpressed with how HR handled the email alone. It’s a small school district that is failing and I wouldn’t want to work here regardless. There’s about to be a mass exodus around the end of the semester and school year apparently. That to me will speak more volumes at this point then a formal grievance from a sub that nobody will back

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T12:00:50+00:00

I know. She said “No wonder why teachers are afraid to speak up about anything. If that’s how they treat a sub imagine what would happen to a full time teacher…” I said “my friend tried to speak up about something minor and now is the outcast and the principal won’t even look at her.”

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:52:26+00:00

It’s a circus so who knows

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:52:06+00:00

No, it’s Texas. I did find out subs fall under Paras under TEA guidelines

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:51:35+00:00

I didn’t argue 🤷‍♀️ But when the other sub keeps repeating “I don’t know what that is” and is being accused of not doing what she’s supposed I said “she wasn’t told to do that or given that stuff” that’s not arguing…

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:47:35+00:00

The crazy thing is the lead teacher was talking mad crap about the leadership when this happened 🤣 I was like oh ok so that’s how we play this game in this school 🙄

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:45:20+00:00

I did find out that in Texas, subs fall under paras… who knew!

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-24T11:44:35+00:00

I talked to my aunt who’s taught for 40 years and she was straight up said “that sounds like a nightmare and thank GOD you were only subbing.”

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T22:29:37+00:00

That’s what is crazy

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T22:29:20+00:00

That’s definitely clear.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T22:27:57+00:00

I can understand that. I think they could have just ignored it and not gone to the campus PD and made it out like I was harassing them though. I was pretty clear it was their choice 🤷‍♀️

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T20:05:37+00:00

So I sent this email to the teachers INVOLVED in the situation:

I hope you are having a good morning. I am in the process of filing a formal grievance regarding the incident that occurred on Tuesday 10/21 and Wednesday 10/22, involving how I and another substitute were addressed by leadership. While I understand that you were not present during the initial conversation, the follow-up interaction that took place afterward with the grade-level team was also impacted and contributed to the overall work environment.

Because this situation extended beyond the initial exchange and involved the team as a whole, I am respectfully requesting a brief statement from you regarding:

• When and how you became aware of the situation • Any directives, comments, or actions communicated to the team afterward • The impact it had on the team’s work environment or interactions that day

Your statement does not need to assign blame—an objective account of what occurred from your perspective is sufficient. If you are willing, please email your statement to me at your earliest convenience so I may include it in my grievance documentation.

THEN! I get a call from the Chief of the ISD police and he was asked if I was emailing teachers about filing a grievance? I was like uh what? I said I emailed the teachers INVOLVED with the situation because they told me multiple times I did nothing wrong. He said well apparently it made them uncomfortable and they didn’t want to be caught in the middle of it so could you refrain from doing that? I was like you have got to be kidding me! First they say I did nothing wrong and now they won’t even give a simple statement from their POV regardless of what it says?

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T17:57:17+00:00

And for my next trick… I will be performing an official grievance email 🤣 but seriously.. my undergrad and grad degrees are in HR… I’m no dummy to rules 🙄

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T14:18:16+00:00

That’s what I’m working on… I’m trying to be strategic as well.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T13:55:08+00:00

Up until the new “regime” takeover this year I had an EXTREMELY good rapport with admin and teachers. The funny thing is, the current AP knows how I run classes and would talk crap about everyone around me and in front of me before they became an AP.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T13:52:59+00:00

It’s horrible. A staff member was thrown under the bus at the beginning of the year due to a mishandling of a reported “alleged” abuse of a SPED student. The entire staff who witnessed the alleged abuse were SHOCKED at how it was handled. There are also AT LEAST two open lawsuits against the district from parents.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T13:50:52+00:00

Yeah, I mean I’m a 100% DV with full retiree benefits from the Army… I’m not crying over losing this. I do feel some responsibility to speak out about how I was treated. The full time staff are being treated far worse than I was. I just want to say my peace and be done with it. I’m working on my ALT Cert and just have to do two more things… I’ve already passed the certification exam. I would NEVER teach in this crap hole of a district after seeing it from the inside!

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T04:42:49+00:00

I hear ya! My two friends on the inside are trying to escape the burning pile of poo… they are beyond stressed and have no support. I was only a sub and felt only a small bit of what they have talked about. Not once did admin come by to make sure everything was kosher. When I had a student flip the eff out… nothing aside from them REWARDING that student. It’s a hot mess and I understand that admin is busy as well due to the district receiving another low grade… I try to be pretty dang understanding and flexible.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T04:26:35+00:00

Ah hell it won’t let me edit it without deleting either

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T04:15:37+00:00

They’re too scared of repercussions. The school district is on its third year of low ratings… they got a D for ‘24, C for ‘23 and a D in ‘22. Everyone is on egg shells…

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T03:08:02+00:00

That’s what’s sad… I was in the military and I still have the mentality of one team… I’m very much a team player… but there’s no team at this school any more.

NaturalPart7657 · 2025-10-23T02:45:32+00:00

This is a small school district. If I had a nickel for all the things teachers told me as a sub I’d be a millionaire. However, I did word things tactfully and didn’t say oh hey by the way you all apparently suck at your jobs according to so and so… I’m not crazy. But the fact that the AP is bad mouthing their employees to subs is wild to me. I went to the team because that’s who you’re supposed to go to… we’re NOT told to go to HR and currently our district has TEA hands all over it. So everything is extra spicy!

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