The Meddling Co-Worker

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The Meddling Co-Worker When I was offered a job as an Extended Day Assistant at age eighteen, I was beyond excited. I would get to be creative, meet new people, and best of all, work for a school that was very well known within the community. This would be my first time being around young children in a Montessori environment, and I was eager about beginning my new journey. Everyone was really nice and welcoming, and I felt lucky to have been given this opportunity. The enthusiasm I felt would soon change into misery following my encounter with a teacher whom I had not met. In the afternoons, when we were outside with the children she would come to the playground and give backhanded compliments about the way my co-worker and I were handling the group. If I came up with a creative idea, she would take credit for helping me come up with the idea. There were times when I drove home in tears because I did not understand what I had done to have someone bully me everyday. If we were in the work room at the same time she would not acknowledge me. I was working really hard to understand the Montessori Method, but it is not something that is learned from one day to the next. I would come in earlier to observe classrooms and emulate the other assistants. It seemed like I was doing all of this just please one person who had no link to my position or what I was doing with the children; none of her students were in the Extended Day Program, so why was she interfering? The children were always happy and safe with me. During snack time she would come into the room criticize my choice of snack, make comments to the children about things they needed to do or not do, which she made sure I heard because they were really meant for me. How could all of this be happening in a respected school run by professional women? Many women are bullied in the work place

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