The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

This year I have come to the realization that my administration staff is bias towards the four year old teachers. At the end of the school year before graduation, the four year old hall is responsible for giving the children a spirit week. While planning for the spirit week, the administration staff started changing the way we did spirit week. They didn’t want us to watch movies, have a cook out, or water slides like the three year old did last year. When we would ask them why they couldn’t do those things, they would say we were doing too much, and we had to change everything we had planned for them. Now, do you know how frustrating that is for a teacher who has to plan for graduation, end of the year field trips, graduation parties, and finish a NAEYC book? It was a massive headache, and they weren’t going to make it easy for us.

I tried my best to ignore the other teachers when they would talk about the administrative staff, and how bad they were treating us, but it was hard. I just couldn't figure out why they were so hard on us, and why they would let the three year old hall do whatever they wanted to for graduation. At the end of the year, I had a talk with the principal about how the year ended. She said the reason she was so hard on the four year old side was because she couldn’t trust the majority of them. She said besides me, and my co-teacher, she couldn’t trust the rest of the group. So, that’s why we couldn’t do what we wanted to do for spirit week. I don’t think that was fair because the three year old hall gets to do what they want, and the four year old has to go through hell before we can do anything. I am a skilful teacher, and I don’t think it’s fair that my children and I have to suffer because my principal don’t like the teachers on the four year old hall. As, a professional, I think she needs to reexamine herself, and how she runs her program because bias towards individual teachers is not professional at all. She is not giving everyone an equal opportunity, which what a person in her position is suppose to do. If I were her, I would take more classing on professionalism, and learn how to operate a center without bias or prejudice because she is not going to gain any respect from her employees if she continues. Although, I love my job, I believe my administration staff needs some work on their leadership.