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Excellent post, and it is the truth. It goes on everywhere, in
every school district in the United States. These
administrators are not held accountable for their actions
because they are not closely supervised to begin with. That's
why they do what they do.

Every single you worked for your entire life is literally down
the tubes because of an insane or idiot administrator who in
turn is backed to the hilt by the school district. It's
criminal.

Six years, nearly 60, and counting for me. The only work I can
get is substitute teaching in a different state from the one
from which I was "dismissed." I did nothing to deserve it but
be in the way of an idiot administrator who didn't do her job.

I can't make it. Right now I am in a federally-subsidized
program for people 55 and over, but it is part-time, only
minimum wage, and not at all related to teaching. I get about
850 a month total, including my dinky pension. Dirtbag who
dismissed me is continually moved from job to job to job, and
she is making 100k a year when she should have been fired.

On 7/15/14, Empathy and Sympathy wrote:
>
> Hello Mini,
>
> I know that empathy and sympathy from me will not help your
> situation, but I did want you to know you are not alone. I
> had something very similar happen to me.
>
> I had received nothing but good evaluations for 15 years, and
> then ran afoul of a vindictive principal (who had been
> promoted from assistant principal (after the old one
> retired), and she -- for whatever reason -- decided I did not
> fit into her notion of how to teach and handle my duties
> (even though I was doing nothing different from how I had
> always done it. I am sure I made mistakes, we all do. But
> she placed me on a TINA for no reason (based on past
> performance)and once I started receiving write-ups for the
> most trivial of reasons, I could see the writing on the wall.
> She made demands that were impossible to fulfill. Time in a
> day simply did not permit it. No matter what approach I took,
> no matter what I did to try to accommodate, it was never good
> enough. It got to where I got physically ill just thinking
> about facing one more day with this tyrant; and believe me, I
> am no wimp.
>
> Some of my fellow teachers who had worked with her before (I
> had been recently re-assigned to this school because of
> budget cuts that resulted in some programs being cancelled,
> including my former job which I had held for 10 years at
> another school). Anyway, sympathetic fellow teachers who had
> long experience with her as an assistant principal knew what
> was happening, and told me that she was that way. In fact, I
> ran across a few later on and was told even her new assistant
> principal had resigned because he could not endure her
> dictatorial manner. As did a few other teachers who had had
> it (but they were eligible to retire).
>
> I stuck it out, not the least of reasons being I was not yet
> eligible to retire, and at my age (which was 53 at the time),
> I was too old to start a new career.
>
> My day was filled with constant harassment, harping, nit-
> picking, and being told I wasn't working "hard enough." Hell,
> I was working 16 hour days (both on duty and at home), and
> managing perhaps 5 hours sleep a night because of worry and
> stress. My friends even told me that over the last year it
> looked as if I had aged 10 years (and it was probably true!).
>
> Anyway, there came the day, that I just decided it was not
> worth my physical and mental health to keep this up. So
> yeah, I resigned, knowing that non-renewal was pretty much a
> foregone conclusion, anyway.
>
> So there you have it. Fifteen years as a teacher with no
> blemishes, up in smoke because of one petty principal who
> loved to lord her power if she didn't like you.
>
> Today, I barely make ends meet by substituting, and only
> because my wife works.
>
> So yes, Mini, it can happen to anyone, and there isn't a dam
> thing one can do about it...
>
> 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 one's petty hatred.

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