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Post by pitbulllady on Nov 19, 2009 19:02:10 GMT -5
I have been reading in all our local papers and seeing on our local news since this morning that one of my personal "Henry J. Waternooses", a former Principal, was arrested yesterday for holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint in their home, threatening to kill her. This is the man who, along with the then-Superintendent, tried to force me to change answers on my homeroom students' state standardized tests, a felony under state law. This is the man who hounded me night and day, constantly finding fault with everything I did, never foregoing a second to let me know how much he hated me and wanted to destroy my career, simply because I existed. This is the man who coddled and promoted the school board's president's daughter over me, even though I was more qualified, while reminding me of what a useless piece of crap I was to him. This is the man who, upon discovering that I'd found a baby Rat Snake in the building, called the entire staff and student body to an assembly outside the school grounds and forced me to throw the snake on the ground so he could chop it into pieces with a shovel(yes, idiots seem to prefer shovels) in front of everyone, to make an example of me. This is a man who, on his first day at work with us, met with us teachers and explained how much he hated "faggots, dykes, queers, and women who don't know their places", while extolling the greatness of athletes and coaches, and who openly boasted about "outing" a band teacher at a previous school and eventually causing the teacher to committ suicide. This is the one man whom I still have not yet been able to forgive for the utter misery that he caused me, even as he offered me a promotion IF I'd only alter those test scores, and promised that I'd never teach again if I didn't. I nearly wound up taking MY life, and that of someone else, someone who had no clue what was going on and who really did not deserve my anger, because of this man. I had to undergo two years of intensive mental/emotional therapy due to this man, and I did indeed lose my job at that time due to this man. But now, whose A$$ is in jail?
It was a long time coming, but it looks like Karma has finally caught up with my Waternoose, and now the rest of the world can see him for the b*****d that he really is.
pitbulllady
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Post by sgtyayap on Nov 19, 2009 19:06:24 GMT -5
That's a relief.  Do you suppose his reprimand over you might be overridden in your profile? As in, do you think it's possible for you to get a better-paying teaching position, now? |
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Post by RandallBoggs on Nov 19, 2009 19:19:25 GMT -5
Certainly there should be an investigation into this man's dealings as a principle, for doing such an act to his own wife is certainly NOT someone you want to be heading your child's school.
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Post by Bampot on Nov 19, 2009 19:20:25 GMT -5
Nice to hear he got what's coming to him. I haven't even met the man and everything you've posted has made me loathe him with every inch of my being. The worst kind of person. Glad to hear you don't have to deal with him anymore.
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Post by pitbulllady on Nov 19, 2009 19:38:32 GMT -5
That's a relief. Do you suppose his reprimand over you might be overridden in your profile? As in, do you think it's possible for you to get a better-paying teaching position, now? No, that's been too long ago, and no teacher is making decent pay now in this state, IF they have a job at all. Every district has slashed paychecks to the bone due to budget cuts and laid off as many staff as they can. The reason given by that school district that I worked for at that time for terminating my contract was NOT disciplinary measures; after all, they could not risk a lengthy court battle in which it might be revealed that they'd done something wrong themselves. Instead, they claimed that the district desperately needed space for several new "special education" classrooms for this influx of "handicapped" children, and needed to hire teachers just for those children, so they got permission from the State Dept. of Education to suspend all "unnecessary" educational classes/instructors, including the Arts, to make use those rooms for these "special ed" classes until a new school could be built. Basically, they simply eliminated the position of Art teacher, along with Music, Band, Chorus and what was then called Home Economics. The Band teacher had already quit, the Music/Chorus teacher was moving to the Domican Republic and the Home Ec teacher DIED, so that left only little old me to have to get rid of. A year after I'd left that district, they created a new position of "Gifted Instruction" for MY "James P. Sullivan", the daughter of the school board president, but it really was simply Art class. About five years after that I chanced to meet up again with this woman, whom I'd once so despised, in a Wal-Mart. She'd never had any idea of what had been going on, although at that time, it seemed to me like she was in on the whole thing. She broke down in tears, explaining how her father had died, and with his passing, all her protection from the corruption and ill-treatment from district personel had vanished, how her job was more pressure than she could handle, her husband was leaving her due to her spending all her time involved with school or school work, she never even got to spend time with her own kids anymore. This was the woman whom everyone had extolled as such a great teacher, so much better than I was. The sad and scary thing is, I had, at one point, come to hate her so vehemently that I actually considered taking drastic measures to remove her "threat" to me and my own career, in my stupid 20-something way of thinking. That is just how close I was driven to the brink by that former Principal and the Superintendent. I realize now that it wasn't this woman herself, but rather, what she represented, that I really had come to hate, and I actually felt sorry for her when we last met. Her life was falling apart due to what she had thought SHE wanted. When I tell people how much I can closely and personally relate to Randall's situation, this is the reason why. This is why I can so deeply understand his thoughts and emotions and why I can comprehend how someone can so control another person and have such a profound negative effect on them, through a combination of promises and threats and intimidation and put-downs, that the person under those threats will be willing to do just about anything to put a stop to them, to just "make it all go away". I have lived through that personal hell myself. I KNOW what it will do to you, mentally, emotionally and physically. That's why when I first saw Monsters, Inc., I knew that Randall Boggs was walking in MY footsteps. pitbulllady |
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Post by Leopardstream on Sept 4, 2010 9:27:07 GMT -5
I have been reading in all our local papers and seeing on our local news since this morning that one of my personal "Henry J. Waternooses", a former Principal, was arrested yesterday for holding his own wife hostage at gunpoint in their home, threatening to kill her. This is the man who, along with the then-Superintendent, tried to force me to change answers on my homeroom students' state standardized tests, a felony under state law. This is the man who hounded me night and day, constantly finding fault with everything I did, never foregoing a second to let me know how much he hated me and wanted to destroy my career, simply because I existed. This is the man who coddled and promoted the school board's president's daughter over me, even though I was more qualified, while reminding me of what a useless piece of crap I was to him. This is the man who, upon discovering that I'd found a baby Rat Snake in the building, called the entire staff and student body to an assembly outside the school grounds and forced me to throw the snake on the ground so he could chop it into pieces with a shovel(yes, idiots seem to prefer shovels) in front of everyone, to make an example of me. This is a man who, on his first day at work with us, met with us teachers and explained how much he hated "faggots, dykes, queers, and women who don't know their places", while extolling the greatness of athletes and coaches, and who openly boasted about "outing" a band teacher at a previous school and eventually causing the teacher to committ suicide. This is the one man whom I still have not yet been able to forgive for the utter misery that he caused me, even as he offered me a promotion IF I'd only alter those test scores, and promised that I'd never teach again if I didn't. I nearly wound up taking MY life, and that of someone else, someone who had no clue what was going on and who really did not deserve my anger, because of this man. I had to undergo two years of intensive mental/emotional therapy due to this man, and I did indeed lose my job at that time due to this man. But now, whose A$$ is in jail? It was a long time coming, but it looks like Karma has finally caught up with my Waternoose, and now the rest of the world can see him for the b*****d that he really is. pitbulllady That's like the devil walking on earth! How could someone DO such things! Like Bampot said, I don't even know the person myself, but I hate him as much as I hate Waternoose! But how can someone DO those things without getting cought somehow?!?! |
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Post by mistica0christina on Sept 4, 2010 10:27:21 GMT -5
You would think that it would be impossible for someone to do junk like that without getting caugtht...and at one point, I would also think the same thing but considering the fact that I work under a woman who barely works 13 hours a week yet she still gets paid for working 40 hours PLUS with overtime...it's not as impossible as one may think.
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Post by ivyandbro on Sept 25, 2010 9:56:34 GMT -5
Oh god I'm so sorry ): /hugs at least the karma's done it's part. oh my.. that is overwhelming, specially just for one person. And you're right, you really are like him.  -analizes thoughts- |
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