Sharing room situation

I moved to a new district/school this year from across the country. Moved back so I could get 20 years in state retirement system since I only needed 3 years.

 This district special Ed teachers share rooms. No big deal, I think. My paperwork clears a day after school starts so I walk into a room in which most of the room is covered. I think “great, no having to decorate space”

  I meet the other teacher, she tells me the area near a desk is mine. I put up some student work the first week and work around her stuff.

 Here’s the BEC part: 

1. She is a youth minister at a fundamentalist church and is constantly making comments to the students about her opinions about transgender and other issues.

2. She loves to have paras in her room trashtalking other teachers and kids. Not only at lunch but also when I’m teaching.

3. She is constantly buying stuff for the room and to teach math. Tons of TPT worksheets and some games.

4. I have a student who’s mom died last year and he has trauma. I’m working with him and he is doing better. She is his case manager and started rewarding him for my class and talks to him constantly in my class. She also asked him how mom died. This is after she stated she didn’t care if his mom died, he should act better.

5. Now she wants to sell hot chocolate in the morning to students in Nov.

   I agree that I should have forced her to move stuff when I go there but I didn’t want to make waves not knowing people/culture. I’ve been working with the department chair around the paras hanging out in the room. I spoke to the union, they told be to transfer at the end of the year. The principal doesn’t like hard conversations so he will do nothing.

   Any suggestions for getting through the year? I’m starting to go into gen Ed teachers room to support them/students and it helps.

Submitted October 19, 2023 at 12:39PM by PlanPublic https://ift.tt/yfgOxK7