I am also fighting the push-in philosophy at my school. Everyone in
our area was so gungho on it for a while, but I couldn't see how it
would possible work at my school. Unfortunatley what ended up saving
me from push-in was they cut the ESL teacher position down to
halftime. I have other licensures, so I am still full time, but I now
only have half the day to accomplish what I used to have all day to do.
Needless to say this effectively ended push-in except for a few
diehards who keep pushing for it.

Trying to decide where to push in would be a nightmare, I have six
grades and only three periods. I also have quite a few new arrivals
which speak absolutley no English at all. Sheduling would be a
nightmare, not to mention trying to schedule common prep times with
all those teachers and I don't see this working with out at least some
common prep time.

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