Originally posted by hitman:
Originally posted by flawd101:
for me there were no second chances...
where do you work?
I'm almost afraid to say. Let's just say I've been smacked on the wrist before for publically airing district laundry.
You never said, what do you do now? [/b]
LOLOL. This is a first. Flawd and I confused as being the same person.
I, more or less, told Baltimore Shitty to shove it up their ass and quit. Now I'm an activities coordinator in a very large nursing home, even though they don't call them that now.
They are a blast!! I'm paid to play with and host parties for the demented. I totally
love the job and am very good at it but am looking for something completely different now. Not that I want to because I don't at all but have no choice. This job pays much less than half what I was making teaching, which was even less than you make in a better county, and I'm single so have that much less money in my household with absolutely no tax breaks. Not even allowed to claim Head of Household. Fuckers. Also, we were sort of told that we won't be receiving raises so that they can give the raises to the already highly paid nurses. Typical! So, after my rental increase, in real pay, that's more like a pay cut.
Sorry, but I have absolutely no career advise that I can share with you other than to get the Hell out of teaching asap!!! I've got a BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art, an MLA from Johns Hopkins and the equivalant of a 2nd Masters, mostly in waste of time Education classes and can't find anything else to save my life. And as you know, if I don't keep taking classes, I'll lose my certification which means that I can't teach in a government run school anymore, which is the only damn thing it's good for. Ironically, without that, they would fire me and replace me with a slightly cheaper teacher without a certification who then must work their ass off working on obtaining one. In fact, a couple years ago, while job hunting, I found out that many of the Teach For America people who have no certifications or any Education classes or teaching experience were actually being paid MORE than many teachers in the same schools who had certifications and Education degrees!!! How unfair and twisted is that!? Since I've quit, I've decided to tell the State to fuck off too by refusing to keep up that waste of time piece of paper. I've figured out that in the long run, it's nothing but a scam to keep tons of money going into the colleges at our expense. The other irony, many other employers who fall for many of the myths of what is happening in Education won't hire us because they think we can't do anything but teach yet are the very same ones who expect teachers to do anything and everything in the classroom on top of trying to teach.
You are far from the only teacher in any system who has been reprimanded for speaking the truth about how dysfuntional the school systems are. I've known of several teachers who got in trouble for saying almost nothing. Can't believe that they never got on my case about all that I would say. Probably only because it wasn't to the media. Fuck them! They can't fire me now so I'll say whatever I want to say about them and it's all, sadly, the God's truth! Anyone who doesn't believe me needs to spend some time in a real classroom in the very same capacity as any real teacher instead of some office in a paper castle of illusion or in front of the big propaganda run boob tube.
You may have very recently read about some principal in a Baltimore Shitty school who was just fired because he graduated students who had failed some tests, or something like that. (I've only barely kept up with it.) Well, as they say, he just got caught. They've been doing that sort of stuff for years and years. It's also quite common for the administration to change report card grades that teacher's labored over so that they could make the school look better. The reason they do that is so that the numbers look better for the school. And they do that because their bosses and the dumb-ass politicians only send money to schools with numbers they like, if you catch my drift. I bet they do that crap in your schools too. Of course, they prefer that the public continue the wording of the 'teachers' pass the students on when it is really the 'administrators' and other bosses, often via policy, who are really the ones passing the undeserved on.
