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Schooltales time!

I planned a review class for third years, two worksheets (one for the two topics we covered this half-term). Some teachers asked me to do a full lesson with both, others asked me to only review the earlier topic to give the students a refresher from a month-ago class. I didn't actually have time/the sufficient fucks to go run this stuff by Mitch, seeing as she's always making non-committal noises about how busy she already is trying to fit in all the coursework without some foreigner distracting the place up on a mandate. She sees me making photocopies though, and I give her a copy and she schedules two classes with 3A and 3E.

This was a week and a half ago. We had the 3A class yesterday, and they collectively cared so little about paying attention that we only got through the first worksheet. She for the most part commandeers the lesson so I figure, hey, if she wanted to move them on to the second worksheet she totally would've, right?

We're chatting this morning due to a scheduling error, and (and I am paraphrasing here because I kinda force-quit my short-term memory because what she said pissed me off so much) she claims she "didn't know" about the second worksheet. Not actually surprising, the first time she ever properly looks over any given lesson plan of mine is when I'm handing it out to the first class we have together. Sometimes the morning before if I'm lucky! Her excuse that I'd given materials to her two weeks ago was that she just got back from a business trip the morning before 3A's class, which, again, did not take two weeks.

This is the usual shit, though, so idgaf. What I'm bitching about here is she blamed the 3A class' "lower intelligence" for taking so long on one worksheet. (paraphrasing because I can't actually recall what she said, but, to clarify, what she did not say:

- Not "poor behaviour" or a poorly-structured fifty minutes, both of which could be addressed with a firm teacher who knew what the fuck they're doing. Half of them were playing a game to see who could go the longest without laughing, which apparently completely escaped her notice.

- Definitely not "lower English ability" or similar words, which she's used (euphemistically, apparently!) before, and at the very least is empirically checkable against test scores if you want some "data" to back up your shitty reasoning.)

I was kind of hoping she'd leak test questions to 3E today just so I could nark on her (she did not).