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Teacher contract not renewed, played fall guy for district I was a very good special education teacher. I worked 10- 12 hour days, I did everything required, on time, and my students loved me and improved.

When I was hired to the present teaching position, I had 2 years experience at another school and did an excellent job there as well. What happened?

I was not tenured and was used as a fall guy for difficult students and parents.

The school district in this small college town has 100's of applicants for every job because the university pumps out hundreds of education graduates every year, and they all want to stay here.

The district is not desperate by any means.

I was hired at the most difficult school in the district. Other people, straight out of school without experience, were hired at the "easy" special education teacher positions. Every one of them had a relative, or good friend's relative that worked in the school distri...See More
sped Well, if you want to continue on in teaching, you're probably going to need to get better references. Maybe try to get a long-term sub job and make friends with administrators.

You may try moving to a locale where there is more demand. A small college town that has hundreds of applicants is not ideal. You were probably lucky to get the jo...See More
Oct 21, 2015
AM Just so you know I am a parent and I can tell you the word that used to tee me off was when a teacher kept saying my child refused blah blah. If they cannot do as a result of their disability they are not refusing to do it, they can't. You might want to pay attention to how you word things. Perhaps you were verbalizing things to school personal tha...See More
Oct 21, 2015
Kathy I saw this post on another special ed site and had a couple of questions there, but didn't ask. How long have you been teaching special education? You say you did well in a previous district for two years? Were you in a different position (self-contained versus resource)? Do you have documentation of all you posted? If so, did you take it to your u...See More
Oct 22, 2015
sped Even if he did everything you suggest Kathy, he still can be non-renewed at the end of his first year. There doesn't need to be any reason for this at all. He technically wasn't fired, after all, he was simply not offered another job the following year and he is basically working on an annual contract.

On 10/22/15, Kathy wrote: > I saw...See More
Oct 23, 2015


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