Fingers Crossed

A few blogs back I wrote about my boss, who did not give me the best marks on one aspect of my evaluation. (see below) It has actually bothered me for the past several weeks (and so does my 3.94 GPA!), so tonight I sought the advice of a colleague and asked her if she thought I should forward along the praising e-mails I have gotten from parents. When I was an editor, any time a client sent a complimentary e-mail to me, I would forward it on to my boss, just so they would know. Typically this goes against my humble tendencies, but I did it anyway. For some reason, I hadn't thought to do the same in my new career.

Anyway, after my friend said that I should do it, I sent along 4 of the e-mails I could find to my boss. (I had deleted several e-mails over winter break, which I shouldn't have.) There are so many more parent e-mails in my inbox, but I thought 4 of them were particularly good for her to see. 

Hopefully, if all goes well, she will be happy about this and not taken aback. I was mad about her not being fair, but I also realize that what she hears isn't going to be the positive stuff because that is said to me, not her, and unless the parent is aware of this, it's not likely to get over to her. So, hopefully standing up for myself won't be bad. We shall see how it goes.

Fingers crossed.

***Next day update***

Got a response from my boss on all three e-mails, and she was quite pleased with them. So yay. I have to remember that there were some things I did well before I became a teacher.