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Re: am I in trouble? HELP!!
Posted by flyingdove on 8/29/06

    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.


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