So everything with Morgan has been pretty normal. He still continues to act weird and inappropriate and I continue to avoid him and keep my kids away from him. You wouldn’t believe the way Courtney and I acted when a parent approached us the other day saying my child said, “Morgan hurt my pee pee.” Courtney actually laughed in the most awkward way that suggested the inappropriate nature of the occurrence, questioned the causality of the conversation, yet did not hid the fact that she was not surprised by the accusation. Turns out two years ago, her older daughter who is now in my class made the same accusation, and although she nearly busted down Morgan’s door, nothing ever came of it.
Of course, to me, it is ludicrous to think that a child would make that kind of statement against a director of a preschool, yet the parent would keep their child enrolled, and in fact, enroll a second child. Naturally, this parent was concerned, but not as concerned as you would think… not as irate like I would be. That was just so weird.
So anyway, I have not told Morgan that I am planning on leaving officially. Of course, I have made up my mind, but the last we talked about it, I told him that I was still considering it, but that we would have a conversation in June to make a decision about what was best for me and the school. Well now, he keeps talking about how he has hired 6 new really great teachers from the US (none of which are EMU graduates). Then the other day when I was getting paid he said, “Oh and can you write me your resignation letter… just saying that it is mutual.” Well that was interesting because I have not resigned yet! Then a day or two later, he said something else about me only having a month left! Now, I know that he doesn’t want me to stay because he wants to start over with a fresh new staff, but I still have the choice to resign. It is just so strange because he keeps saying things like I want you to stay, but I understand that you want to leave… At this point I just want to tell him that I have decided to stay just to see what he says. Honestly, I know that I am benefiting from him releasing me from the contract, but in a way he is still screwing me over. He is not going to reimburse me for my flight like he was supposed to and he is going to cancel my visa so I will have to pay more money again for another travel visa to return out here.
So the other day Morgan FREAKED OUT! When I say freak out, I am not just talking about him getting a little bit upset and raising his voice. I mean, he absolutely freaked out on me and my Chinese teacher Ms. Qian! He caught us both completely off guard in the hallway and started screaming and yelling at us in front of other teachers, children and parents (talk about professionalism). It is a long story, but he was mad because a curriculum packet did not go home with the kids two weeks ago. It is really weird, but the teachers send home a curriculum for the parents every other week. For some reason, Morgan wanted these packets to go home, but it did not make sense because it was not the correct curriculum. When I talked to Morgan about it, I thought that we were under the understanding that I was going to send home the regular curriculum and not the incorrect curriculum. Well apparently that was not the understanding. You may think, this isn’t the end of the world, right… well that is what I thought, but that is not what Morgan thought!
He was so mad! He was shaking and waving his arms in the air, screaming things like YOU MUST THINK I AM STUPID! He was yelling at Ms. Qian that he told her to send it out and that she shouldn’t ever listen to me because I am not the one who pays her salary. I apologized for the misunderstanding several times, but he just kept yelling. I just stood there in shock – trying to understand why he was so furious and trying to understand his reaction to not sending out the curriculum verses his reaction when I told him that his teachers were hitting children! Let’s be honest here… which do you think is most important? He barely even blinked an eye about abuse but heaven forbid there is a mix up with the curriculum. Well I sent home the curriculum, even though it was not right and it was going to confuse the hell out of parents, but whatever.
Then we had a meeting with him yesterday, awkward as usual, and completely pointless. Again, he asked me for my resignation letter… funny because I still have not resigned. Then he and I got into a little tiff again after the meeting. Although he keeps saying that he wants me to stay and that he is not firing me, he is pushing me out of the school. He told me that since he never heard anything else from me about the offer to leave, he assumed that I would not be returning. Therefore, he hired 6 new teachers, including one to replace me. Well if you ask me, I am the one with the contract, so the job is mine until I resign. On the other hand, Morgan says that he replaced me because I never said I wanted to stay. He went on about how unprofessional it is of me to “leave him hanging” for three weeks. Although when we talked last, we agreed to further discuss it in June, Morgan thinks it is absurd that I didn’t tell him anything earlier, and that three weeks is far too long. I am sorry, but I don’t think that three weeks is too long to make a life altering decision.
Of course I left his office just so frustrated. Everything that he says is so backwards from logic. Speaking or reasoning with him is like arguing with a three-year-old. It would be more productive to bang my head against the wall (and less of a headache I am sure).
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