Well following on from my other post where I was talking about the problem I had with the deputy principal not doing anything about the flickering lights in one of the classes I do support work in, I actually decided to do something else about it.
I was back in the classroom today (I was off sick on Monday so this was the first time back in there since last Wednesday) and was VERY upset and annoyed when the 3 lights I reported as flickering were still flickering (even though I specifically stated it was bad for my E and making me feel ill). I wrote another orange slip today and said it was urgent due to photosensitive epilepsy and then because the deputy is a dip**** and I didn't want to have to try to deal with her again I decided to go to the Assistant Principal. I spoke to him about how I assumed he had been informed about my E (I had been told by the principal and deputy that they would need to inform him as he is the person in charge of first aid etc in the school) but he said that he didn't know about it. So, then I just explained that yeah, I do have E and i'm having trouble because of flickering lights in one of the classrooms and not getting any response regarding having them changed. I explained that I followed the procedure by filling in the orange slip and even wrote "URGENT due to photosensitivity" on the first one and "URGENT due to photosensitive epilepsy" on the second. He told me that the maintenance guy probably wouldn't have been able to understand what that meant. I can give him that but i'm sure he should know what URGENT means. He then went on to say "oh no, that's not good, that's not fair on you to have to put up with that" and he told me that he will follow it up for me and make sure that it gets changed so that I don't have to work in that work environment.
Still annoyed with the deputy but glad that something is being done. When I get to work on Monday hopefully everything will be sorted in that regards and next time i'll know who to follow up with and who not to bother with.
I was back in the classroom today (I was off sick on Monday so this was the first time back in there since last Wednesday) and was VERY upset and annoyed when the 3 lights I reported as flickering were still flickering (even though I specifically stated it was bad for my E and making me feel ill). I wrote another orange slip today and said it was urgent due to photosensitive epilepsy and then because the deputy is a dip**** and I didn't want to have to try to deal with her again I decided to go to the Assistant Principal. I spoke to him about how I assumed he had been informed about my E (I had been told by the principal and deputy that they would need to inform him as he is the person in charge of first aid etc in the school) but he said that he didn't know about it. So, then I just explained that yeah, I do have E and i'm having trouble because of flickering lights in one of the classrooms and not getting any response regarding having them changed. I explained that I followed the procedure by filling in the orange slip and even wrote "URGENT due to photosensitivity" on the first one and "URGENT due to photosensitive epilepsy" on the second. He told me that the maintenance guy probably wouldn't have been able to understand what that meant. I can give him that but i'm sure he should know what URGENT means. He then went on to say "oh no, that's not good, that's not fair on you to have to put up with that" and he told me that he will follow it up for me and make sure that it gets changed so that I don't have to work in that work environment.
Still annoyed with the deputy but glad that something is being done. When I get to work on Monday hopefully everything will be sorted in that regards and next time i'll know who to follow up with and who not to bother with.
