When most people leave school, they optimistically hope they’ll never have to encounter bullying again. Unfortunately, returning to school as a teacher means returning to school-age problems. I’ve been bullied and seen others bullied in the most unbelievable of ways.
Teaching is full of arrested development types, which makes it all the more depressing that they spend more time with your children than you do, modelling “adult” behaviour. Teachers are the only people who should actually feel impostor syndrome. They can have fragile egos and are quick to become fractious or feel threatened.
A former colleague of mine almost lost their job because a jealous colleague told stories about them to the principal, who didn’t do their due diligence to confirm their veracity.
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