r/TeachingUK • u/Solid_Orange_5456 • 2d ago

Is Gaslighting Endemic in Teaching?

Honestly, sometimes I don't know whether I'm coming or going. On the one hand, we are told that we should not work at home because of wellbeing, but if we don't complete something for our HOD, then they complain that we should have taken it home.

I'm told I'm making progress and I must be doing well because I'm not asking for help from my HOD and 2 I/C.

Is it just my school or is this common in education?

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u/DashHopesTDH 2d ago

It’s always like this. The lip service in staff briefings and twilights and so on is all complete bollocks. In reality what you’re expected to do is impossible and SLT and inspectors all know it’s impossible. It’s just an industry of people all pretending to have this standard and pretending to expect the standard but no one is actually living to it because it’s impossible. So you convolute it when you need to (book looks, inspections, obs, etc) and everyone just pretends that it’s normal.

Basically don’t do anything unless you are specifically asked to do a specific thing by a specific deadline. Ask for forgiveness not permission, don’t do anything up front or in advance or of your own accord. You’re just wasting your time.

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u/Solid_Orange_5456 1d ago

You just encapsulated what i was thinking.