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What can you do to get along with a very disagreeable teacher? I have tried everything in my little book of tricks and nothing cracks this shell. Examples: We assign a TV to each building to be shared among the teachers in that building for the year. A teacher agrees to keep it in their room, but there is a sign-in sheet so others can use it. Teacher "A" said she'd like to have it in her room this year and trying to win her over, I said sure. A few months later we had some shifting in our schools and she was sent to another building. I saw her rolling the TV over to her new classroom and so I explained that that was the TV for the building she was leaving and she couldn't take it, but that there was one in the building she was going to that she could use. She got very ugly about it, fussing about she needed a TV in her room all the time, etc. She finally stormed off and I returned the TV to the correct building. She brought her students to the library (5th graders) and as she stood in the doorway she asked me a question. It was sort of a vague question, but I thought I knew what she wanted, so I answered. She growled (YES, growled) and said, "NO! I meant....." Then she stood there in the door and "talked" to herself loud enough for anyone to hear (especially the children as they passed by her to come in). "Ask a simple question and can't get a simple answer...you just can't be nice to some people, some people just try to be difficult..." I went to the principal on this one because she did it front of the students and they were visually upset as they came in the room. He confronted her and she denied being ugly until said I started it! He told me about thtis but said he believed my version . Yesterday, for Read Across America, I had guests readers come. They were on a short time schedule, so I had it set up so that they could read to a whole grade at a time. I put a schedule in each teacher's box the day before to tell them when and where to be to hear the reader. Since I couldn't be in 6 places at once, I had student hosts to take the readers around and then I rotated to take pictures. She didn't take her students to the 5th grade location and by the time I got there the reader was almost through. About a half hour later she was walking down the hall with one of her students. The student stopped to ask me when the readers were coming and I told her they had already come and gone. Teacher "A" said loudly as she kept walking, "What she is telling you is that we don't get to hear one." I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying, "What I mean is your teacher couldn't read a schedule and you missed out," but I just ignored it, trying to remain professional. Any suggestions on how to handle this person? Our principal is going through Chemo and I hate to keep taking this to him since he has enough on his plate. Jeanna Dennis C. F. Hard Elementary School Bessemer, AL simon827@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------