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My colleague stole my position, and now she's struggling worse than I did.

Heavy weighs the crown of my position.

I'm a teacher at a decently affluent public school.

For the most part, I love my job.

I've made genuine friends among staff members, and the students make the hard work worth it.

There are, of course, the negative parts of teaching that you always hear about. Low pay, grading on off hours, and so on. But for the most part, the deal has been good. By the way, this comes from Stone of Forest. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash-O-K storytime subreddit. And I'm Angie. And I'm Dakota. And we're here to give good advice, goofily, but we don't have all the answers. We just know what we would do in these situations. So let us know what you would do in the comments. So, O.P. says, a few years back, I was recognized by my old boss as a potential leader in the building. He stressed to me that I was very data-oriented and likable along my colleague.

I know my way around Google Sheets in Excel when it comes to collecting and organizing student

data and I'm really solid with parent communication. I was hesitant at first, but eventually

I agreed and became a leader for a group of teachers and students at the school in charge

of organizing meetings and overseeing

overall student educational success. The old boss who promoted me left, and I was stuck with a new

boss I didn't know very well. Here's where things get messy. I have sensory processing disorder

and mild hearing loss. It's hard to explain, but sometimes I genuinely do not hear things correctly.

Think of, you said,

I'm going to pick up Stacy and I might hear something like, I'm just going to wait and see. I see.

That can make things difficult. I feel you on that. Yeah. This happens at least once a day and usually isn't a big deal. Unfortunately, it isn't curable, but I manage.

In my meetings with my new boss, she would push strategies based around focusing on students whose

state test scores were almost passing. The idea was to focus on all students, but give

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