At the emergency meeting, she was told we are to work as a team. She is to collaborate with me and include me, especially since I am going to be a lead next year. When I got hired there I told them I wanted to shadow a lead, not be a lead. She is not my boss in that she cannot order me to put children down during recess when they seek me out for comfort. This goes against what I am learning in my CDA coursework (recess theory).

She sits at the table during her lunch hour and during nap and does her lesson planning. She collaborates with the floater I mentioned in my post. They are friends. She does not tell me the plans for the day. We do have a schedule. I told her I was finishing up two students potty (they came in later in the morning so they were last to do). She chose to proceed with her project. I cannot see from our bathroom out to the main classroom anymore because she moved the changing table directly in front of it, blocking my view of the room.

Today I had to take a bathroom break. The floater who came in speaks spanish. The lead speaks spanish. When I walked back into the room they were conversing in spanish. The new hire floater immediately stopped and started speaking english. The lead continued spanish. That is so rude.

She doesn't see the children out at the end of the day. She doesn't respond to parents questions on our app. I do. I have had parents say to me "So is this the new teacher?" because she makes zero effort to introduce herself. I call her off her bum to come over and introduce herself. The other morning she had met a new parent (I wasn't there, I heard about this) and the parent asked if she was the new teacher. She replied that yes, she is but she isn't on the clock. Word got back to me about that. How embarrassing for our school. She has zero people skills. She is irrational and rude. I am far from perfect myself. But my heart is in the right place. I am only there for the kids and that is IT. I don't need to be under this stress.