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Re: if you leave of your own volition it would look better down
Posted by the road NFM on 10/28/09

    On 10/28/09, Confused wrote:
    > 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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