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Re: Should I quit --Yes
Posted by Confused on 10/14/09

    On 10/14/09, anon wrote:
    > On 10/14/09, anon wrote:
    >> Can you tell me more about MACE? Things are desperate out here in Nevada. I have had NO job offers
    >> and only about six in the last year-and-a-half, and this includes jobs of all kinds.
    >
    > I meant six interviews. It's bad out here.

    That's so sad! Well,MACE is a teachers organization that protects and fights for teaches. They do not
    have administrators as members like the other organizations, GAE or PAGE. I just called to get there
    take of the situation. They advised me not to quit and to try to fight. To be honest, I am not sure
    that I have any fight left in me. I am going to continue to weigh my options. What if it just makes
    the situation worst and cause me more stress? I can't deal with that at this point in my life. We will
    see I guess.
    >>
    >>
    >> On 10/14/09, Confused wrote:
    >>> On 10/14/09, anon wrote:
    >>>> As I've said, you really need to resign that job. No job is worth ruining your health over,
    >>>> despite this horrendous economy.
    >>>>
    >>>> As I mentioned before, you will be eventually fired if you stay in your job. That's a
    >>> guarantee.
    >>>>
    >>>> I myself would never go back into this cesspool called public education ever again. It isn't
    >>>> the kids, the parents, or even fellow teachers who are the problem. It's the unscrupulous and
    >>>> criminal types who run these individual schools and school districts who are the problem and
    >>> why
    >>>> are schools are deteriorating right before our eyes.
    >>>>
    >>>> You are so right. I know I DO NOT want to work there it is just the fear of how I am going to
    >>> pay my bills that is getting to me! I am the only person working in my house and I am a single
    >>> parent. I know that once I let this school go, my survival skills will kick in. I guess it is
    >>> just fear of the unknown. I am praying about it. I even called MACE today, a teachers
    >>> association that I read about on GA board. I know that they can not guarantee anything. They
    >>> even mentioned that the admins are probably setting me up for nonrenewal. The thought that
    >>> people can be so viscious is terrible!!!! I am now wishing I had not even gone into this
    >>> profession!
    >>>>
    >>>> On 10/13/09, Confused wrote:
    >>>>> On 10/13/09, Catsister wrote:
    >>>>>> Do you think you can get permanent disability? If your heart is that bad that just
    >>>>> thinking of grading something can
    >>>>>> give you a chest pain, maybe teaching is not for you.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> In general, teaching is getting worse for teachers. Since I started looking for a job in
    >>>>> the 90's, the standard class load
    >>>>>> has risen from 5 to 6 classes in high school, the small plan book squares are out and full
    >>>>> lesson plans (typed, of
    >>>>>> course) are in, there are millions of rules regulating how you decorate your bulletin
    >>>>> board. You are supposed to make
    >>>>>> special lessons for every child, including those with all of the multiple intelligences,
    >>>>> ESL kids, those with classifications,
    >>>>>> those who are gifted and those who are not the sharpest knives in the drawer but are not
    >>>>> special ed. Meanwhile, the
    >>>>>> kids are almost unengageable thanks to teeny cell phones they can hide on their lap and
    >>>>> text with, and teeny
    >>>>>> headphones attached to teeny ipods they can listen to music with. I've heard of
    >>>>> administrators that will back teachers
    >>>>>> up if they get into an argument while confiscating these things, but I've also heard of
    >>>>> unicorns and leprechauns. I've
    >>>>>> never actually seen either one.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> My point: even in a better situation, it's still stressful enough to cause a heart attack.
    >>>>> Don't be like that little old lady in
    >>>>>> the commercial who falls on the floor and has chest pains and can't get up.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Thanks for your advice. I think you misunderstood me though. Grading papers does not give me
    >>>>> chest pains and anxiety. It is the messiness that goes on at my school. If I am out on sick
    >>>>> leave, how do I even have any idea about the students grades and why would someone ask me to
    >>>>> contact them about it? It is just another form of harrassment. I have been harrassed for 2
    >>>>> years straight. I am just tired of it all and my body has taken enough and now is shutting
    >>>>> down. Stress is a killer! The last time I had chest pains or heart palpitations is when I
    >>>>> was working 2 jobs and still behind on bills. I had to learn to let it go. I quit one of the
    >>>>> jobs and said the heck with the bills, they got paid when they got paid. Now, I am having
    >>>>> them again and it has been close to 10 years later! This is my 6th year teaching and last
    >>>>> year was definitely the worst. That is why I am not able to deal with this year, last year
    >>>>> really tore me down.

     
     

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