I'm currently an Instructional Coach for a school district with 950 teachers. A part of that job is rolling out professional development sessions that are differentiated based on their role or what they teach, so there are about 10 different "paths" and 20 different courses those people might take to get their required number of hours each year. I also then need to keep track of who has completed their PD for the year.
The PD hours are "due" by April 30th each year, so yesterday I ran a report. About 700 of the 950 already completed their stuff. Great. Awesome. I sent the other 250 a mail merged email letting them know exactly what courses they needed to finish before April 30th. That email also included links with video directions on how to register for the courses they were missing and how to access the Asynchronous Course materials.*
Back in November I started planning to get out and I was offered a job to teach elsewhere in early March, so I'm currently just waiting out my 60 day hold until I start at the new school on May 5th. The 50 or so mail merge related emails I've received from the 250 people who got them with insane questions is bad enough, but I think this "mystery texter" takes the cake for creating a great summary for exactly why I'm leaving. I blocked out the phone number, but it is just numbers. This person isn't in my contacts. I legit don't know who they are or how they got my personal cell phone number.
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This is exactly why I quit. I can't believe there are people like this. I'm done doing extra work because other people refuse to do simple aspects of a job they are getting paid to do. I don't even know which is the worst part:
1. Not even really knowing what the email was about, despite it being clear enough for 700 people to have already finished this task.
2. Calling the Professional Development stuff that I literally make "dumb crap", in a text message, to me.
3. Not being able to figure out what sessions they need to do in an email that has a section that says
"Missing Sessions: XXXX"
4. Asking me how to do the sessions despite there being video instructions included in the email for how to do the sessions and then sending me a picture of my own email from their laptop that is literally showing the video instructions included in the email for how to do the sessions.
This reality sucks. I want out.
*Which I also made the sessions in the program to register, the Asynchronous Course materials which includes Slide Decks, Video Screencasts of those Slide Decks, Knowledge Check Quizzes, and Discussion Questions, and both of those video directions. The sessions were also run in-person at least 5 times in the past 10 months and have been available online to be taken at any time during the same time period.
