She's a fair bit older than me, certainly more experienced in number of years teaching, and is my year group partner (as in, we both teach the same year group at school). Absolutely brilliant teacher for getting results. I'm, however, very much senior to her in our job roles. We both work in very, very different ways. She is hyper organised to the point of madness (I said I would prepare some lessons for a month down the line. When she asked me how I was getting on with them, I said I'd be looking at them the next week... she then went and planned them that night) and whilst this is brilliant in many ways, it is starting to grind me down a bit.

It's a weird thing to complain about because she does so much work that alleviates my work load and lets me focus on other areas of my job. However, it's hard to keep up with someone who arrives at work at 7:15am on a daily basis,never leaves before 5:30... and also works at home most evenings and at weekends. This isn't a case of the school workload being too high, but a case of someone who wants the children in her care to do the absolute best they can... even if it means working harder than anyone else in the building.

Anyway, I digress. She's always moaning about a few other members of staff and I know she had a moan when I took time off to look after my boy when his nursery got covid-shut. Worth noting my partner and I did 50% of the childcare each here. However, I know she's been playing the martyr again this week whilst I've been isolating when yes it's inconvenient but just fucking chill out - it's one week of you telling my cover teacher where the resources are in the morning. When speaking to her today, I asked her about the assessments our classes did while I was off and she said how hers had done better. This pissed me off. This is partly because she fills every 5 minutes with extra maths practice, or grinding out understanding of the subjunctive form, whereas I'll read stories to the class or talk about books they've read, and partly because she's a fucking good teacher. However, she also made some really shitty quip about 'OH DON't WORRY WE'VE SAVED THE D.T FOR WHEN YOU'RE BACK' because... well, ahaha I've not been there for all the woodwork and isn't it bloody trying.

She's also been in floods of tears to me a few times this year already because she thinks it is unfair that nobody else has to work as hard as we do. She was a DHT at one stage but had to step back as she doesn't have the disposition or ability to let things go.