Kiernan,

Quit checking this board, and get your stuff into GCPS!!!!!

My pancakes before the Feb 28th job fair will be AWESOME!

Better get your classroom stuff ready WHEN not IF you get your
job in sunny Georgia!

Mark

On 1/17/09, Kiernan H. Butz wrote:
> I read with great interest the advice given last June to
> Julie Ann, new teacher having trouble finding a job here in
> Wisconsin. I wholly understand her plight.
>
> I'm a second career teacher with post baccalaureate
> certification through Cardinal Stritch University's Master
> of Arts in Teaching Program. I applied myself to my studies
> like I have never applied myself to anything before and
> finished at the top of my graduate cohort. Nonetheless,
> since completing my studies in June, 2006, I've applied for
> well over 500 teaching jobs across the state -- and still
> find myself living a hand-to-mouth existence as an on-call
> substitute teacher.
>
> The bitter truth is that most teaching vacancies here in
> Badgerland routinely draw 400 to 500 applications -- and
> occasionally more -- many from veteran teachers furloughed
> by other districts.
>
> Unlike Julie Ann, however, I'm a pragmatist. I have come to
> grips with the unpleasant fact that the teaching career for
> which I have sacrificed so much probably isn't attainable
> in Wisconsin.
>
> Frustratingly, my wife shares Julie Ann's optomism,
> believing that "something's going to pop for us" if we just
> sit tight and wait.
>
> Last fall I was offered a very lucrative teaching contract
> in Glendale, Arizona, but my wife declined to follow me out
> there and ultimately convinced me to decline the offer.
>
> I've got to work, and I've given too much of myself to
> education to turn my back on a teaching career. I'd knowing
> which other state offer teachers better prospects for
> employment.
>
> Kiernan H. Butz
> Germantown, WI
> hb6719@aol.com

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