Toxic and unprofessional behaviour I've experienced as a teacher.

I had a fake comment placed on my Trustpilot account and I was very upset about it for a couple of days. I’m over it now and I have to accept that as CMT continues to grow - which it will, that people will have thoughts about me and the way I live my life. Surprise, surprise - nothing new eh!

But I think it’s important to call out the behaviours that I’ve personally experienced in my life. Undoubtedly this will resonate with many of you. Because if someone has taken the time out of their day to find me on Trustpilot and write that disgusting review, I think it’s important that I take a few moments out of my precious day to tell you my experiences too.

When I worked full time as a teacher at the top of my career (UPS 3), I remember vividly having to keep quiet about many things that I disagreed with. All the way throughout my 15 year career working in Primary schools across London (Private and State), I remember countless meetings where I did not agree with what Senior Leadership were saying and I had to bite my tongue. I was too scared to lose my job. I didn’t want to rock the boat. I wanted to be liked.

Well, I don’t care about any of those things any more. And it’s far more important to me to speak my truth and not accept what other people throw at me. Life is far too short.

Throughout my time as a teacher at school, if you disagreed with leadership, you’d be told that you had a ‘bad attitude’ or that ‘your attitude stinks’, if you made your point, certain members of the leadership team would literally roll their eyes. Some would look at each other and smirk or even laugh. Basically, you had to just be silent. Agree with everything you were told and just do your job!

I now work with the most amazing people ever. And I am delighted every single day to work with my clients and with my amazing students. I have a beautiful team of teachers and we all respect each other and listen to each other. But I do each year have 10% of behaviour which is toxic and unprofessional and so do my teachers.

And if you are on the other end of receiving behaviour that is toxic and unprofessional, I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to tolerate it. Find another job. Move on. Express yourself fully. Life is far too short.