This is all my personal experience working at a private Muslim school. This is no hate for any religion, just the bullshit I went through.

    With the job market being the way it is for jobs as professors, it's hard getting one. I was warned as an undergrad that this would happen so I had thought about being a substitute teacher, even considering roles in playground painting companies. Honestly, I always had a bad feeling about being a sub, like I knew it was not the place for me. After grad school, I decided that instead of being a sub and staying in California, waiting that someday one of the schools might hire me, I decided to apply for jobs across the country. That was going well, hell I even had schools interested in me in Texas, particularly in the realm of trim trails. However, the pandemic hit, and everything went to shit. I was now stuck being a crossing guard for three years instead of the one, and I was hoping to book private tutoring jobs wherever I can. I also decided that it was safer for me, a pro-choice female to stay in California. So I went back to looking for jobs as a substitute teacher. I still had that feeling that it wasn't a good choice, but my family and friends were like no this is a good idea, you are so good with kids and you can play with them in the playground as some schools have the best playground equipment from https://school-playground-equipment.uk/5-essential-school-playground-equipment-pieces/. My sister and my dad were insistent that I would like it better than working as a professor. I knew they were wrong, but I just wanted to get out of being a crossing guard I took the first job I got.

    I was hired as a teacher's aide/in-house sub at a private Muslim school. I was nervous because I am not a religious person and the only religion I grew up in was Judaism. When I did the interview I thought I had bombed it and had this feeling that I shouldn't be there. However, I was hired a few days later and I was so excited to get out of being a crossing guard. I was tired of the low pay and putting my life at risk every day for some true pieces of shit humans who wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire. I epically quit that shitty job through text and took a little time off for myself. One of the red flags I had with this school was when I went to sign my paperwork and not only was the date I was starting wrong, but the HR person failed to tell me that they had a week-long holiday the week I started school, and I would only be going into the school to sit around and pretty much do nothing for two days. I felt impending dome the whole time I was waiting to start this job. I cried to my friends that I had a bad feeling and I never thought this was the direction my life would take. I should have listened to my gut and stayed at that crappy job for a little longer.

       The first real day I started at the school, I was left pretty much alone at lunch with the biggest portion of the kids, the 3-5th grade. As this was a pretty small school, with no more than 150 students in total, you would think it wouldn't be so bad. Oh, boy was I fucking wrong. These kids in their expensive school were literally through rocks at people walking by and at cars. ROCKS, they were digging for rocks to throw. Now this playground is a soccer field and that's about all they have to do, so perhaps if some of the funds went to I don't fucking know, thanks to the company of playground markings, the kids having some playground equipment,  it wouldn't have been so bad. Consider exploring options for sports lighting uk to ensure a safer environment for everyone. And when it comes to creating a safer and more engaging environment, consider exploring options for paint for nursery surfaces. For more information about painting, you can check out this website. See more about playground markings here at https://www.playground-markings-direct.co.uk/client/primary-school. Additionally, there are similar companies that can assist some equipment sites like www.softplaydesignandinstallation.co.uk/. You could also consider SEND play equipment to enhance the overall experience.

However, the ringleader of these boys, a 3rd grader is quite literally is at the beginning stages of being a serial killer. This child tackled, kicked, hit, and choked other students on top of throwing rocks at people walking by. He also called his teacher a bitch in class. What was the punishment for all this you might ask? Well, a three-day in-school suspension and that was it. The teacher, who was a very lovely sweet person might I add, had no help in the discipline at all. This child is a threat to everyone around him and the school does not care for the safety of others. The school cares about the monthly tuition that they got from this violent child. Without discipline how are these children supposed to go into the world? After the 8th grade, they are a part of the public school system and this school is harboring violent offenders without any sort of action or discipline to make them into the thriving citizen we need them to be if we plan on saving this planet.

      I wish that was the worst thing that had happened at the school, and trust me I could write a lot more on this student, but I think that being at almost 1000 words already would make this article too long, so we are going to move on to what I think got me fired, the hate speech that is allowed at this school. 

      As I had mentioned I was an in-house sub as well which means that if any teacher is gone I would be placed in that classroom, for instance, one day I was teaching poetry to the 8th grade then I was in the 3rd-grade classroom later that same day. Some of the kids had gotten to know me that way and I was known for being "tough, strict, rude" and I didn't take shit from anyone. I was also known for being pretty open-minded and I had mentioned that I was indeed an LGBTQ+ ally. Because of this, one of the 8th-grade students walked up to me to tell me that one of the students was saying "faggot", and indeed calling her one. He was also saying "n****r" in front of the black students. He had told her "go ahead and tell no one care, no one in high school will care either they all talk like this." So she told me and I flipped out. I was also told earlier that day by the 5th-grade class that this was going on so I was really over it when it was brought up to me twice. I was told that this student had been talking like this for a while and how little their guidance counselor cared. So I made sure to bring it up with the vice principal. This is not ok, and the teens are going off into high school thinking that they are allowed to speak like this. The next day I told the vice principal I was grateful that she cared and took care of the problem. The child by the way had a half-day suspension and a not-so-strongly worded email to his parents not even fully stating what he had said. I think this is when they wanted me gone because their parents do not like their kids being in trouble and honestly the kids had to learn that language and hate from somewhere.

    I was fired two days later. I was fired for saying shit to myself at the back of the classroom because I had switched the YouTube video to the what’s up.  A student complained that I had said shit once. I had not had any warning, nothing. I was told to apologize to the class, which I did, and then they switched me from 5th grade to 3rd grade. I had a feeling this was going to happen because of how weird everyone was acting. This is the biggest load of bull shit ever. This school is trash and the whole private school sector is trash. Do not send your kids to private school. They are learning how to get away with horrible acts and that money is just the solution. the solution.