Second year teacher here at a charter school. Administration is ass backwards and I’m sick of it. My principal has repeatedly sent me disrespectful, unprofessional, and demeaning emails. I have had no prior teaching (no student teaching I’m alternate route) before this job, and because they’re a charter school they didn’t have any legit training for me through a mentor ship program. They just hired another teacher to “mentor” me last year and then required me to pay this teacher $1,000 in fees at the end of the year. Anyway, since being pregnant, my principal has been targeting me and criticizing my every move. She’s mad at me for retaining three students, all of which need to be held back for various reasons. But she doesn’t even know the kids. She never comes out of her office. I feel as though she’s trying to push me out so she doesn’t have to pay my mat. Leave in November. Its seriously causing me emotional distress and I think I’m going to bring it up to my ob at my next visit this Wednesday because with my hormones, I get so worked up. It’s been so stressful working there and trying to keep a calm and collected persona around her. She clearly does not like me. She just sent me another nasty email questioning my performance and abilities. Last month, she told me that the “supervisors” wanted to let me go (meanwhile on paper, all of my observations have been good all year so I know this is really her opinion of me). She said that I’ve lost my “sparkle”. That was literally her reasoning to almost letting me go. No other explanation. She just straight up doesn’t like me. And I believe if I weren’t pregnant, she would’ve laid me off. But now that I’m pregnant, she’s trying to make my life miserable so I leave and don’t collect my mat leave. She said next year, I need to show 100%. Meanwhile I’ll be on leave in possibly late Oct. definitely November since baby’s due 11/8. I have been putting 100%. She’s never in my room to see me teach, but nitpicks any negativity. And like I said, on paper my observations are good and my kids are learning. She doesn’t have a family and is just a super fake person who doesn’t care about her teachers. Shes super petty and just downright evil. She’s never in contact with her teachers and just stays in her office all day. All of our staff meetings are about negative issues she wants to address. And there is absolutely no teacher/staff morale. She has these “big dreams” of expanding our school but then talks about money like they’re running out. I know eventually, that school is going to just close because she’s not only the principal, but the owner of the school and she doesn’t know how to handle both or delegate.

I’m so done. I told my husband I wish I could just finish for the summer and not come back in August. I plan on taking my maternity leave in Oct/Nov and then resigning. I just feel so bad for my baby girl because I keep getting worked up and stressed out every time she says something to me. This year has been so stressful and as much as I try to stay calm for baby, my nerves are shot and my hormones are getting the best of me.

Not to mention, the “teacher of the year” in my school shows up 20 min late to work every day and never hands in her paperwork on time and is a complete mess. Another teacher is teaching without any kind of certification so, illegally. And we’ve had six out of 15 teachers up and quit and leave without notice this year because of how fucked up this school is. We don’t have a union because it’s a charter school. And the school has no support for the students in terms of special ed, esl, emotional and behavioral needs, etc. the esl teacher is currently a long term middle school sub. And the special ed teacher frequently acts as our substitute.

Sorry ladies, rant over. I’m so sick of this school year. June 26 can’t come soon enough. I know I’m prob not the only one in this kind of situation. It just sucks to have your first teaching experience come to this because it’s totally deterring me from continuing my teaching career after baby. 😫☹️