I was initially enrolled in a private school, and my first grade teacher was a terrible human being. Not a nonce, but she was really emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive towards students and notorious for this fact. When I was in her class, she actively pursued a team up with a boy who hated me to co-bully me together. This came to a head when the boy pushed me down a full flight of concrete stairs and her response was to laugh and give him a high five. She described the event as "hilarious and awesome."
When my parents and I met with the principal about this, the principal said that they were aware and that it was not acceptable, but that there was also nothing they could do about it because the teachers family was the school's primary funding family and if they fired her, the school would go bankrupt before the end of the semester. This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman's career. She is, last time I checked, still employed there and still bullying children.
This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman’s career.
Probably closer to hundreds of thousands, and I doubt any of it was going to the faculty. This sounds like high school principle tier bullshit. Pissing off this teacher might provoke an angry Superintendent to can his ass, but it had nothing to do with the well-being of the school itself.
I don't know, we were very explicitly told that the only reason she hadn't been fired like years prior for any one of the events in the like giant ass binder of reports they had on this lady was because her family was essentially the only reason that this school was financially viable, and that without them fundraising would not be possible.
If its a private school and her family was somehow the primary sponsor, its certainly possible. But I've seen a lot of ways for public money to trickle into private schools. More often than not, a family like this is simply the gatekeeper of that cash. They aren't going out of pocket for it. They're just funneling money from somewhere else.
I've also heard enough bullshit from school administrative staff to take any kind of private conversation with a high school principle alongside a huge grain of salt. Sometimes it feels like half the job of the principle is to just lie your ass off.
I was initially enrolled in a private school, and my first grade teacher was a terrible human being. Not a nonce, but she was really emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive towards students and notorious for this fact. When I was in her class, she actively pursued a team up with a boy who hated me to co-bully me together. This came to a head when the boy pushed me down a full flight of concrete stairs and her response was to laugh and give him a high five. She described the event as "hilarious and awesome."
When my parents and I met with the principal about this, the principal said that they were aware and that it was not acceptable, but that there was also nothing they could do about it because the teachers family was the school's primary funding family and if they fired her, the school would go bankrupt before the end of the semester. This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman's career. She is, last time I checked, still employed there and still bullying children.
Probably closer to hundreds of thousands, and I doubt any of it was going to the faculty. This sounds like high school principle tier bullshit. Pissing off this teacher might provoke an angry Superintendent to can his ass, but it had nothing to do with the well-being of the school itself.
I don't know, we were very explicitly told that the only reason she hadn't been fired like years prior for any one of the events in the like giant ass binder of reports they had on this lady was because her family was essentially the only reason that this school was financially viable, and that without them fundraising would not be possible.
If its a private school and her family was somehow the primary sponsor, its certainly possible. But I've seen a lot of ways for public money to trickle into private schools. More often than not, a family like this is simply the gatekeeper of that cash. They aren't going out of pocket for it. They're just funneling money from somewhere else.
I've also heard enough bullshit from school administrative staff to take any kind of private conversation with a high school principle alongside a huge grain of salt. Sometimes it feels like half the job of the principle is to just lie your ass off.