August 2011
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This is fucking shitty
So I got a call back to my old job last Thursday, on the provision that it may be necessary to be laid off thirty day later. Of course i said yes even if it is a thirty day stint. With plan C in my back pocket, I finally got accepted to CSU today but I can’t enroll in classes because someone has to change my status to student to trigger that this is major bull shit, but at least I have a...
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Plan A, Plan B, Plan C
Have tried all summer to find work at other districts, really the jobs aren’t there. Tried looking at the ODE jobs page and K12jobspot.com, I even looked at individual district websites, however most of the districts around Northeast Ohio use Applitrack so instantly any open jobs are bombarded by 70 to 100 applications. The Applitrack system is really nice since you can fill out one...
July 2011
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Contiuned
It was tough coming back to the classroom after trying most of the summer unsuccessfully to find another job, I was grateful to have a job but I had mentally closed off ties to the school. It was like starting at a new school but familiar faces. It was great to have the old staff back except one teacher who found work and had signed a contract and had moved away already.
I knew at the start...
I need to write stuff down
Have been simmering for a long time, very frustrated. Laid off second year in a row and it hurts. Working hard as a teacher doing the best that you can with the tools and students that you have trying to get your scores up is very hard work. Tired of haters saying that teachers get paid full time doing part time hours, which is not true. All teachers that I know work damn hard at school, at...
