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Re: just need to get my thoughts on paper...
Posted by Confused on 10/28/09

    On 10/23/09, OP wrote:
    > I wouldn't ask to be let out of your contract...to make a long
    > story short, it was only a stroke of luck that I did manage to
    > find so many even after being let go. Really, I only had to list
    > for the third job my horrible experience in Arizona because the
    > second one was a private school, and I was able to snow the guy
    > just enough to get on because he thought being an ESL teacher
    > where I visit classrooms would make me more successful. I prefer
    > not to dwell on it too much; the whole thing is kind of
    > depressing. I started this post for closure because I am
    > embarking on a career path (more of a "calling", if you will)
    > that can be equally as difficult in some respects, yet I reached
    > a point after much stubbornness that that is where I need to be.
    > These situations that people on this board find themselves in
    > are difficult; I can't offer much yet I can offer compassion,
    > empathy, and intercessory prayer on their behalf.
    >
    Well, I am only wanting to ask to be let out of my contract
    because the job is affecting my health due to being abused by the
    administrators and co-teacher. I have anxiety, depression, chest
    pains and heart palpitations. I get sick literally thinking about
    going back. I just don't feel up to the fight. I am just done!
    People feel as if I will be let go anyway, so I am trying to
    determine which is worst, me leaving for my health or being let
    go? I know that my health is much more important, so I will have
    to make that decision. Thanks for your responses.
    >
    > On 10/22/09, Confused wrote:
    >> On 10/19/09, Incognito wrote:
    >>> In 2007 I received a B.A. in elementary education from a
    >>> university in Colorado. I immediately began looking for
    >>> teaching jobs, both in-state and out-of-state, and landed
    >>> one at a school district in Arizona. To make a long story
    >>> short, I did not even last until Christmas. I was placed
    >>> in a 6th grade classroom with 35 students that even the
    >>> most experienced teacher would have some trouble with. I
    >>> made a lot of mistakes and came across as "playing
    >>> favorites" which got me in serious hot water with many of
    >>> the parents (one who even called me every name in the book
    >>> that she could think of during a conference) The stress
    >>> literally almost killed me. I was having suicidal thoughts
    >>> and almost developed a drinking problem. My marriage
    >>> suffered badly, and the people renting my house back home
    >>> almost wrecked it because they were remodeling it without
    >>> my permission. Well, to make a long story short, they
    >>> asked me to resign by Christmas and I did. I didn't give
    >>> up (yet) and began looking again, finding a job two weeks
    >>> later at a private school in a large city in the colder
    >>> eastern U.S. I thought things would go better in this
    >>> situation, but they did not. I only had 13 students but
    >>> the class was FULL of BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS and I only made it
    >>> a month there. When I got there, I was all gung-ho and was
    >>> getting ready to go the local grocery store to buy some
    >>> school supplies and promptly got into an accident that
    >>> disabled my car...so here I am, a thousand miles away from
    >>> home, no car, no wife or family, and a class full of
    >>> behavior problems. I was out of teaching again that year
    >>> by February. I STILL did not give up. I waited until March
    >>> and began applying to different districts in my home state
    >>> of Colorado once more. I landed a job in as an ESL teacher
    >>> in a district in a mountainous part of Colorado. I THOUGHT
    >>> that finally, I had found a job where I would be suitable
    >>> for, and it kind of was. There were some positives to this
    >>> experience, no question. One particular girl said her
    >>> FIRST WORDS of english to me and I still, to this day, get
    >>> a kick out of that. However, I was an outsider in this
    >>> community and was continually (for the first time in my
    >>> life) harrassed by law enforcement. Every thing that could
    >>> have went wrong, went wrong. Last November things came to
    >>> a head when I was arrested for domestic violence. My wife
    >>> and I were living in a little holiday rambler trailer and
    >>> I hit a little plywood table in frustration and it fell
    >>> off its hinges and collapsed. I have LEANED on that table
    >>> and have broke it. I was labeled a batterer and ALMOST
    >>> lost my teaching job once again. I made the mistake of
    >>> telling the police man that I was going to kill myself and
    >>> was prompting placed in a suicide smock and kept to myself
    >>> at the jail. However, a funny thing happened when I was in
    >>> that jail cell. I realized that teaching was probably not
    >>> for me. I've always been a spiritual person, so the first
    >>> time in quite a while I started praying. I remembered how
    >>> when I was sixteen I felt "called" to become a Christian
    >>> minister, and so I basically bargained with God. I told
    >>> God in my prayer: "All right God, if you get me out of
    >>> this and get me my job back I promise you I will take
    >>> steps to become a pastor. Just get my job back. And Lord,
    >>> if you want me to be a pastor, you've got to work on me, I
    >>> have a lot of baggage and I'm no where near ready." (I was
    >>> drunk when I prayed this, btw) To make a long story short,
    >>> I did eventually get a deferred judgment and was able to
    >>> continue at my job. I did not finish the year; I only made
    >>> it to March. However, the more I studied becoming a
    >>> pastor, the less interested I was in being a teacher and
    >>> by March I had already decided that I would not look for
    >>> another teaching job at the end of the year. I was
    >>> accepted into a nationally-recognized online bible college
    >>> and seminary in May and let me tell you, I have enjoyed my
    >>> classes ten times as much as I did my education classes! I
    >>> guess the moral to my story is that having everything
    >>> possible go wrong with me in education these past three
    >>> years that maybe, possibly it wasn't meant for me to be a
    >>> teacher, at least at the elementary or secondary level.
    >>> Examine your motives and whether you are really meant to
    >>> be a teacher. If you are and "you know that you know" then
    >>> be patient, you will find something. Otherwise, it would
    >>> be just like me attempting to fit a square board into a
    >>> round peg. As for me, I am going to continue being a
    >>> prayer warrior, serve others, and studying my Bible to be
    >>> the best pastor possible in the future! Thanks for letting
    >>> me get this off my chest.
    >>
    >> How in the world did you manage to get so many teaching jobs
    >> after being let go from different schools! Wow, that is
    >> interesting. Whom did you use for references?(lol), Just
    >> wondering because I am thiking about asking to be let out of
    >> my contract.

     
     

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