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Post by Skellinton on Jan 12, 2019 1:32:07 GMT
So, I am a teacher, but I work a .7 position and I share the room with another teacher who is there less then that. We work together one full day and she works on my day off. This has been going on for years. We get along great, I have zero complaints about our relationship.
Today however, she sent a pic (I am home sick) and she rearranged the room a bit, which I thought was really odd. Typically when we have redone the room we have done it together and it has been at the start of the year, although one time we did some minor adjustments due to a new piece of furniture about a month in. It is not a huge change, and I really don’t want to judge the change without seeing it in real life, but I think it is weird she did it without any discussion. It is something we totally could have done next week, especially since Monday and is a no kid day for us for teacher planning. She doesn’t typically work Monday, she will be there for meetings we have, but we totally could have discussed it and changed it together.
She flipped our reading and art center, so like I said it isn’t a big deal, and I haven’t seen it in real life, but I liked our reading center where it was because it was a quieter low traffic area. Our art center was right next to our drying racks (which can’t be relocated) and now the art table is as far away as they could be in our small room from the drying racks with the switch. Again, I may love it in real life, but mostly I just want to know if it is weird that this was done without any discussion or with me being there to give input.
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Post by mlana on Jan 12, 2019 2:21:01 GMT
How strange! Maybe she just had some time and decided to give it a try?
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 12, 2019 2:21:57 GMT
I think it was inconsiderate.
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Post by FurryP on Jan 12, 2019 4:33:36 GMT
Maybe work with it a while, and when if/when it doesn't work out, Suggest to her you move it back and give her your reasons why.
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Post by Skellinton on Jan 12, 2019 4:46:48 GMT
Maybe work with it a while, and when if/when it doesn't work out, Suggest to her you move it back and give her your reasons why. Oh, I have no intention of doing anything about it, I will completely deal with it and leave it till we rearrange for next year, I just wondered if that was odd or I was just sort of bothered because I don’t feel good and am cranky. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jan 12, 2019 5:17:36 GMT
I vote inconsiderate to without talking to you first. I’d ask her why she chose to do it.
When I was a college freshman, one roommate did this. Mary came back a day early from Christmas break and rearranged to room so that she had half and Julie and I had the other half. Mary also set it up with other problems, like Julie (in the bunk) had nowhere to put her glasses or alarm clock. So Julie and I moved it all back. Mary moved out that night. Best thing ever!
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Jan 12, 2019 14:48:35 GMT
If you have a good relationship with her.. I would assume good intent.
She probably just got an idea and went with it. While maybe not considerate.. she probably just didn't think before she acted.
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Post by johnnysmom on Jan 12, 2019 15:03:56 GMT
I think you have a right to be annoyed. I'm in a preschool classroom one day a week (head teacher is there 4 days, assistant is there 5 days, I'm there on Friday's so head teacher can do her planning), I can't imagine moving the room around on Friday unless it'd been discussed.
I think it's ok to let her know that you wish you had discussed it first (maybe site the drying rack issue) but it's certainly not worth jeopardizing an otherwise good partnership, it's so hard to find someone you work well with and you don't want to have tension over something like room arrangement (especially since it was a one time occurrence). Maybe just when she says "what do you think of the room", say "it's ok, but I'm a little worried about the drying rack, kinda wish we'd talked about it first so we could work it around that but maybe it won't be as bad as I think we'll see".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2019 19:08:12 GMT
My son would have had a breakdown if he were in that classroom. He didn’t take to change that well.
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Post by kate on Jan 12, 2019 21:51:55 GMT
I'm a "slow adopter" of change, so I would not be happy. However, I would not say anything. I need time to adjust, and I know that about myself - I certainly wouldn't say anything until I'd lived with it for awhile, especially since you have a generally good relationship.
That said, I would definitely be annoyed if my teaching partner did that, and I would never dream of doing that to him (and I think he'd take it poorly if I did!) - it's just not the way we roll with each other.
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Post by Skellinton on Jan 12, 2019 22:36:54 GMT
I'm a "slow adopter" of change, so I would not be happy. However, I would not say anything. I need time to adjust, and I know that about myself - I certainly wouldn't say anything until I'd lived with it for awhile, especially since you have a generally good relationship. That said, I would definitely be annoyed if my teaching partner did that, and I would never dream of doing that to him (and I think he'd take it poorly if I did!) - it's just not the way we roll with each other. Yeah, it is really weird to me and not something I would ever do without discussing it with her even though I am in the space quite a bit more then she is. I am a little worried about how some of the kids will react as well, especially since the quiet space will not be so quiet anymore. Thanks everyone for your input. I will not say anything and will definitely give it the old college try. |
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