The maths department is quite isolated, located in the old (meaning smelly and falling apart) bit of the school. This appears to have given some members of the team an island mentality, believing themslves to be the dispensers of the divine word on what the school should be doing and be damned with anyone who disagrees. Part of this includes headteacher-bashing. I innocently mentioned the other day that the head had commented at an NQT induction thingummy that the maths department was shirking taking part in a particular part of an INSET day.
Suddenly it was like lighting the blue-touch paper, with everyone taking great offense. Whoops! I tried to back-track and explained that he hadn't really said it in any seriousness, but they insisted that he'd meant to drive the knife in. It was performance management time so perhaps they could be forgiven for being paranoid, but next time I think I'll just keep my mouth shut.
2006-11-01 @ 07:47