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2018, 4*, Academy, accountability, betrayal, career, classroom, corridors, flowers, game, ideas, infrastructure, management, OFSTED, politics, Principal, requirement, resentment, school, special measures, teaching, teaching craft, thinking
I suppose it’s not actually your fault
that I brought to the point of fruition
those things which you were required
to require to keep your sorry arse out of
special measures and you didn’t have the
first or second idea what to do with them
because you had long since moved on to
eleventh and twelfth ideas playing
some stupid game about infrastructure
and accountability and completely forgot
how to teach
about and dedicated to the former Principal of the former school (oh, sorry, Academy … what was I thinking) where I spent the whole 29 years of my former career which had calcified even as it flowered it’s most beautiful petals and eventually snapped under so much pretty weight and fell silent and unnoticed to the ground (and a good job too, it would have been a light, colourful mess in the corridor or the classroom); all of which I am required to not name if I’m to keep the paltry amount of money given for me to just shut up at long last; even after years of escape it seems I still bear a grudge – I really must find a honey pot for it somewhere …
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
career wormhole: I am not yet ready
game wormhole: [once a] dilemminal [always a dilemminal]
management & teaching wormhole: new blue porsche
politics wormhole: looking / ridiculous
school wormhole: green and / luminant / to behold
teaching craft wormhole: Structure & d y n a m i c
thinking wormhole: Khandro Tsering Chodron
Perhaps how to learn?
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more, I think, how to earn…
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Oh man. Do I feel this poem. I have had some painful education experiences in the past, too. Sorry you suffered this, Friend. It sounds rough. Your line about the infrastructure game is spot on.
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I am now two years retired, but still wake up some mornings having argued with someone at school all night; still, you’re still in – a communication between minds is still more valuable than any amount of recognition or reward, ‘doesn’t matter whose career development you have to care about
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I definitely understand this. I am so sorry for your suffering.
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