Re: Need another opinion

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On 10/18/09, don wrote:
> On 10/02/09, Carl wrote:
>> yes
>> 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,

My thought is that your principal needs to grow a spine.

There are whiners on every staff. It's how the principal responds to
them that matters. He or she should not have let that malcontent
overrule a decision that s/he had already made and that would have
such a detrimental effect when changed.
 

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