Re: am I in trouble? HELP!!

your in trouble cause you told the TRUTH? I am a new teacher
and appreciate the truth, as too many times I was lied to
abt things to expect or what the admins would do for me at
certian schools and ended up quitting myself cause it was
all LIES!
I would rather have a heads up before I invest time and
energy into a situation that I wouldnt want to be in in the
first place.
Shame on those admins, I wouldnt do any letter for them at
all.

On 8/27/05, scared wrote:
> I was recently called into the office by my principal.
> She made clear to me that another principal from another
> campus was upset at me. I worked a seminar that is for
> new teachers. One of the teachers from this school asked
> what my opinion was about the school. I simply stated
> that ___________ middle school is a rough school, but if
> you set high expectations and have good classroom
> management then you will do fine. I even told him and the
> girl that was listening that my school was rough. I went
> on to say that I like at-risk students because they
> are "real" and they know what life is about. Well the girl
> that was listening quit on the first day when the students
> came. The new teacher seminar was about a month ago, but
> she blames me that I was the one that bad mouthed the
> school she was at and she said i was the reason why she
> quit. I do not know this girl from adam. Well my
> principal wants me to apologize in a written letter to the
> principal of the other school. But my thinking is if I
> had that much influence on this girl then she would have
> quit after the seminar. She waited until after the first
> week teachers came back and everything. I think she is
> using me as a scapegoat. I do not want my name smeared
> across the district with that letter. I do not want that
> letter misconstrued. I did not do anything wrong. She
> took my comment out of context. How do I tell my
> principal that I do not want to write the letter? What if
> she makes me? What if she thinks I am ashamed to write
> it? If I had done something wrong I would be the first to
> admit it, but I did not. The letter, if I write it, looks
> like I am admitting to something that I did not do.