Really feel for my missus at the minute.
She’s a qualified Art teacher and has been in a school for 6 years, mainly as a technician but doing some cover here and there, she’s completed her BA and NQT years, she was just waiting for a job to come up in the school because she loves it there, loves the kids and they love her, she gets on incredibly well with all the teachers, really is like one massive family.
Job came up last year for a DT teacher as the fella doing it had a mental breakdown and had to leave suddenly, my missus stepped up, sorted the class out, sorted the courses out, worked with the department heads to get the kids back on track and was getting positive reviews left, right and centre from staff and students, she worked through the pandemic, stressed herself out trying to do the best for the kids, pretty much worked to exhaustion to give herself the best shot of getting the job permanently.
Everyone kept saying to her that it was a technicality and she’d have to get the job for the work she’d put in, she practically turned everything around and got the department back on track singlehandedly.
The job came up the other week, so my missus sits there until early hours, making sure everything is perfect on her application, prepares her portfolio ect and just wanted the chance to have an interview to show how much she wanted the job full time.
Headteacher didn’t even offer her an interview, completely overlooked her and hasn’t spoke to her since the job went up, he’s made passing comments to other staff members about how my partner will “have more time to give other staff a hand” as he’s expecting her to drop back down to a technician.
My missus has killed herself for that role, and to not be given the chance has destroyed her, spent 3 hours crying her eyes out and feel completely used by the headteacher.
To make matters worse, he’s given the job to someone whose not only still in their NQT year, but only has 3 months total of teaching experience, and is throwing them into the role knowing full well that the school doesn’t have the facilities for what he wants them to teach.
He’s apparently mentioned that my missus didn’t get the interview because on her teaching qualification, it only says she’s an Art teacher, even though the course she completed was DT with Art.
Feel so bad for her and just needed to get this off my chest. Absoloutely fuming over it and I know all the staff in the school are aswell.
How to you tell someone they’re an amazing teacher and person when they wasn’t even given a chance to interview for the role they’d absoloutely nailed and had gone above and beyond to earn a chance?
