On Friday Ol' Morg had a very interesting day today. Not so much about something fun or really even good. More like one of those times when you are not sure if it real or not. A day which has been the culmination of about 3 weeks tension and stress in the workplace.
Now this is not the place for gripes, and I do not intend to do this. But I would like to describe the situation myself and all the teachers at my school found ourselves in on Friday.
Basically, the way it happened is that each of the classes has a group of parents associated with it. This included all the parents of the students in the class. Each class has a parent president. Now on this very interesting yet not fun day, we were confronted with the opportunity to teach our classes with not one but all of these lovely people in the class too. Why? you may ask. not for fun or for their own curiosity but to check out how little jimmy or slow sally have been doing.Oh and also to check out on ......... ME. Not only was this stressful by simply having a bunch of people assessing your every move, but the school higher ups had also commented several times on this days importance.
Read this as " if you stuff it up they will hound you all year"
Great... awesome. Look forward to it.
Anyway. calss went well and i managed to swing it.
Then I found myself being interviewed by the parent group for a full 25 minutes. about all manner of tricky things. A mine field of probing and poking.
I fell i did well. and i think they are on my side now.
I think this is something that is an interesting way to view schooling, but do not wish this upon anyone. Well, an yone I like at least.
Later
