Sounds like a crier (the other teacher) to me. You have every
right to feel upset about this. That's a significant amount
of money, and anyone, OF COURSE, would want that. Yes, it
meant taking on more work, but it sounds like your principal
should have worked this out a little better, too, and thought
of the repercussions and should not have guaranteed (at least
I am assuming it was set in stone) such an opportunity unless
he/she was certain it would work out on all sides.

From what you are saying, his "conference" period is at the
end of the day, which means he is without students that much
earlier and doesn't seem to have the right perspective on the
situation, that maybe, just MAYBE, this could be a situation
that could be geared toward the betterment of the students.
Am I understanding this correctly? If I'm missing something,
so be it.

For him to start rumors and resign from committees...sounds
like tantrum city.

Hopefully my kid is not in any of his classes.

On 10/01/09, teacher wrote:
> I have a situation where I would like other people's
> opinion. Two weeks ago, my schools enrollment went up and
> my principal asked if I would like to teach on my
> conference period (which is an extra $10,000). Everything
> was going great until another teacher found out that
> because of the master schedule, they would have to change
> their conference period from 7th to 2nd. This teacher
> raised such a fuss (started rumors, resigned off
> committees, etc), that the pricipal change her mind and
> told me that I now can not teach the extra period. So
> basicly, I lost out on $10,000 because the other teacher
> refused to switch their conference period. Should I be
> upset at that teacher when he knew if the switch wasn't
> made, I would lose out on $10,000. We are talking about
> quite a bit of money, not $200 or a minimal amount. Just
> wondering what others would think and do if this happened
> to them.
>
> Thanks,
>

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