Living a life lost in translation

Soooo, I guess I'll have to break down and have a negative post.

The people I work for are shady. I feel naive, because I really trusted them... but it appears they are lying to me and the other teachers; about stupid things too. The biggest thing is that that my bosses have a job posting on an ESL website-- for a job that is already taken. There are three main positions at the school, and those positions are filled by the two Canadians I have come to like and by me. None of us have expressed that we plan on leaving the school... but for some reason there is a brand new post for one of our jobs. It's like... wait, what?

They lie about other things too. For instance, we asked them to change the format of our lesson plans. They said they would talk about it with their bosses. After a week, they came back and said, "We fought very hard and we got our bosses to change the format. It was very hard, but they agreed." We're thinking-- awesome! They are listening to our ideas. Then a few days later we discover an old lesson plan in Lindsay's desk that has the same format of this "new" lesson plan. Why did you tell us that you fought to change to this new lesson when that's not true at all? You just changed back to an old format... one you probably had saved on your computer.

Another example is one of my bosses said that the students have always been silent at lunch time, and that we really need to work on returning them to that habit. But we looked in some old meeting minutes from last year, and several times it's mentioned that the students need to be quiet at lunch. Why would you tell us that they were silent last year if that's not true?

I feel like I cannot trust these people at all. I feel like they think we're stupid. They are constantly peering into my classroom to see what I'm doing. Not coming in the room-- just looking in through the door. What the hell is that? Am I a child who needs to be supervised, or a teacher and adult? It's degrading. Lindsay and Brad tell me that in the public school system you do less work, easier work, and there's none of this bull shit going down. Also-- they get preparation periods-- something I don't have! It's insane. I work for almost 6 hours straight! If I forget to print something off-- too bad! There is no time for you to do that during the day.

I guess I just feel trapped and a little degraded. It's not cool. Okay, I'm done venting.