My official creepiest moment as a teacher...it happened today!
Original post by prncssrachel
Ok, so I am a music teacher for first through eighth grade. Today, I left my classroom to go eat lunch in the faculty room. I came back twenty minutes later to put my drink on my desk before I had recess duty...I walked into my room and put my drink on my desk and then I heard this noise that sounded like a guitar being played....and I looked, and there was this GIGANTIC man sitting with his back to me with one of my guitars IN THE DARK, in MY CLASSROOM! So, I ran out because I thought I was SEEING things. On my way out, I literally bumped into the kindergarten teacher and the library teacher and asked them to look in my room and tell me what they saw...so they got really freaked out too because this man was just SITTING there plucking at one string on the guitar in the dark. He didn't even move when I was in the room. So all three of us went in, turned on the lights and HE STILL DIDN'T MOVE, he just ignored us. So the librarian went up to him and looked him in the face and said, 'HI! I'm the librarian, WHO ARE YOU?' And he just ignored her! Then she said, 'Do you even have a child in this school?' And he ignored her! Now, we work in an INCREDIBLY small school where we know all the parents. It turns out this was a pre-schoolers parent, but I am very creeped out that there was a strange man in my room who refused to talk to us, WENT THROUGH MY CLOSET and took out a guitar and NOTHING WAS DONE ABOUT IT! That is MY classroom. When I told the headmaster, he just seemed to act like it was typical for this man, but I don't feel comfortable with what happened or how it was dealt with. I'm frustrated and annoyed because I have ALL of my personal belongings in there, including my flute that costs more than my new car.
peabody
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Rachel, that would freak me out too.
Did he just eventually get up and walk out of the classroom and pass you three without saying anything?
How did you find who he was?
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Always lock your room...parents have no right to be in your room!!!
That is rediculous...you mentioned a headmaster so it sounds like a private school where the parents feel that they can do whatever they want. Are you part of a union?? If so seek a union rep out about this!!!
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The school district where I went to HS and had some recreational jobs was public, but wealthy. It's amazing what parents with money can do to administrators. We had this father who everyone knew (or at least thought) abused the kids and he held such power over teachers, etc. as well. It's really unfortunate that people in power are so scared of people with money. Incidentally, I don't think this father that I'm talking about was among the wealthier, but still, there was always this culture of 'parents rule.' Anyway, the children are your first concern when you're a teacher. As a music teacher, do you feel like you have less power than other teachers? (My dad is a music teacher and I know that sometimes happens.) Can you get together with some other teachers to kind of petition for a change (not literally sign a petition...if it's a small school, I'm sure it can be done on a more personal level). But, just to have support in approaching the headmaster and asking that things be changed, that parents not have so much freedom as to put teachers and children in such a fearful, unsafe state?
good luck
Summer05
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That is incredibly creepy and I hoe that something gets done about it.
prncssrachel
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Well, nothing was done, and today when I was walking towards my classroom, AGAIN, the SAME MAN started walking into my room! But the kindergarten music teacher was in there, so he didn't go in. I'm so mad, I cannot even believe this man was about to go back into my classroom!!!!!!!!!!! I have been out of the building for most of the day and now the headmaster is tied up in a meeting, so I won't be able to talk to him today. I'm so pissed off. Unfortunately, we've had discussions, long meetings, etc, as a faculty with the headmaster about this issue with parents and something will get done for a week, and then it's back to the same ol' same ol'. We do not have a union at all in my school. No one to look out for OUR best interests. My main concern is for the children, especially because we recently had an issue with a father who was not supposed to be picking up their child from school because of a messy divorce, and they let him take her. The teachers were OUTRAGED and called the mother, but nothing got done about it. We were told that we are to always send a child with their parent, no matter what. BS, absolute BS.
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OMG...that's awful! I can't believe that they put teachers' and students' safety at risk that way. I guess the downside of working in a private school is not having a union to take care of issues like that. I hope you get it straightened out soon!