Wow! You seem to have found the jackpot of bad
administrations. I've taught for 15 years--all of that split
between two counties and four schools. The first two
schools/first county were rough...unsupportive
adminstrations. The third school was heaven for the first,
say, 6 years and then pretty rough for the last 3 I was there
(change of administrators). My current school is great!

As for academic coaches, every one I ever met has been
supportive, helpful, and friendly. They're their to help
teachers, not order them around.

If you truly love teaching--meaning what goes on inside the
classroom--then you should keep searching for a school that
fits you.

On 6/27/09, at a crossroads wrote:
> Here's my story....
>
> I've been teaching for 8 years. I have had great and
> wonderful classes for 6 out of the 8 years. Most others
> that I have talked to say that it is normal to get a few
> challenging or difficult classes from time to time. This
> is not the problem.
>
> I enjoy planning lessons and actually teaching the kids. I
> think that we can go a little standards crazy but this is
> not the problem either.
>
> The problem is surviving the school environment. I can't
> seem to spend more than a year or two in a school before
> I've had it. The treatment of teachers is something that I
> just can't seem to tolerate. If it is not an extremely
> controlling/nasty principal it's a rotten group of verbally
> abusive coaches running the school. I have worked outside
> of teaching before and other job environments are nothing
> like this.
> Another problem is..no matter how hard I try...I am just
> not a "yes man". Administrators tend to like that yes
> man...grin and bare it... everything is super type of
> teacher...which is definitely not me..(especially if
> everything is really not super)
>
> I just don't seem to fit in as a teacher. I wish that I
> could just stay at a school the way other teachers seem to
> be able to.
>
> Is this an indication that teaching is not for me...or have
> I just not found the right school...or do other teachers
> find my problems to be an issue also?

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