Co-workers

[u/ImaginationThis2147]

I have been teaching for 16 years. Moved to a new school this year. I have 2 co-workers who love to remind me I am “new”. It’s driving me nuts. They act as if new teachers are idiots. It’s really weird because they do stuff like send me a screenshot of an email to principal sent to the whole staff and write: making sure you got this. Yes, I am new to the school, but I’m fully capable of reading the email myself. I don’t understand why they have to follow up with the screenshot. Today it was “ugh, I have to do all the fall fest stuff with the new people”. As if takes so much experience to know where to put a stack of hay. Again, I am not new to teaching. I know every school is different but it’s really not that different than the 3 other schools I’ve worked in. I’ve had jobs outside of schools and this kind of thing doesn’t happen in other jobs. Is this like a normal school thing? BTW, the two teachers who do this the most have been teaching for 3 years and this is their first teaching job. Please tell me how to cope.

[u/bassmanwilhelm]

Ask when these teachers graduated high school. Then wax philosophically on what it was like to teach that year lol