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Re: just need to get my thoughts on paper...
Posted by What? on 10/29/09

    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.

    I'm not even sure if I should take this seriously. It
    sounds like a joke ! Are you kidding me. Get some
    counseling.

     
     

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