Dear Mini, although what you went through was terrible, try to
look with hope to the future. What you went through has
happened to a lot of teachers, and often, it is nothing more
than a clash of personalities. Resign with grace. Don't say or
do anything to add kerosene to the fire. Take some time to
pamper yourself and evaluate what happened, learn and grow from
the situation. Then, dust off and start talking to friends that
might have an opening at their school. You will not be
blackballed. When you interview, take a positive tone and
explain that your last job wasn't a match and you are looking
for a school that enhances your skills and gives you a chance to
show what you can do with students. You will get past this!
7/11/14, anon wrote:
> On 7/10/14, mini wrote:
>> I will be naming people and places . They hurt me from
> having
>> a job and making a living. I meant no ill will to anyone.
>> Yet, I was a target on a 4 month contract???
>> Why hurt my career? What did I do to you? Because for 13
> years
>> I had great evaluations. I took a 4 month short contract
> job.
>> And I have been destroyed. I will name the district, school
>> and person that has done this to me. Just to warn other
> people
>> what can happen to you. Because it is so unfair my career
>> should end because of some 's petty hatred.
>
>
> Sadly, this goes on all over the United States. Just one
> person, a principal, can literally destroy your life over
> literally nothing. And here these dolts in the privatization
> movement, and even more than a few teachers, claim it is
> "impossible" to get rid of a teacher. It isn't. Something as
> minor as refusing the change a grade under a principal's
> direction in order to appease an angry parent is enough to
> destroy a teacher's career.
>
> Even now, people think a teacher who was forced out or
> "dismissed" "deserved" it, despite the reality that more often
> than not, a school district administrator is the one at fault.
> Unfortunately, school districts can and do rig it to help
> their useless and insane principals and other administrators
> in order to keep the "good old boy network" intact.
>
> What's worse is school districts insist on having those
> screening out questions that are designed weed you out of
> contention for a job. The question goes something like if you
> have ever been non-renewed, forced to resign, resigned in lieu
> of a dismissal, or been dismissed, and, if "yes," you have to
> give a date and a "detailed" explanation. As if anybody on
> the HR screening staff is even going to look beyond the "yes."
> Those questions need to be made against the law because it is
> a form of blackballing. Besides, school districts already
> have the ability to look up licenses for license sanctions and
> background checks for criminal issues. Just something as
> stupid as a personality conflict with a stupid principal or a
> district violating FMLA or some other kind of issue having
> nothing to do with teaching or public safety should not be
> disqualifying. Those questions were put in years ago when it
> was unusual for a teacher to be forced out because principals
> simply didn't do it for reasons of classroom and school
> morale. Only those teachers who really did deserve to be
> forced out actually were. Now it's just any old reason at all
> to cover principals' butts or save money on salaries and
> pensions.
>
> School districts don't even have to have a principal give you
> a lousy reference. All they have to do is label you a "do not
> rehire," and that is typically all it takes to ruin a
> teacher's job search. School districts have been sued over
> that designation of former employees.
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