This morning, while going through my new morning routine of devouring as many educational blogs as I have time for, I found Geoff Sheehy's moving tribute to Connie. As much as I have tried during the past six weeks (I was told that my position is being eliminated on May 2) to choke down my bitterness and anger, reading Geoff's post brought it all flooding back again. Part of it is personal. I have LOVED my job over the past 8 years. Not every day mind you - I don't think anyone does - but I like to THINK that I've affected the lives of students and staff during this time and am sick over the bureaucratic decisions that are being made at the cost of the quality of education that will be offered in the future.
Thus, branching out on my own in the hopes that I can still help some educator and/or some student out there even if I am not formally employed by a school district. I hope someone, somewhere, benefits from SOMETHING on my website and I hope all of the Connie's of the world (including me) find some bigger and better life mission out there somewhere!
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Thanks for your kind words and reaction to my comments about Connie. My mom is a teacher and was "Riffed" out of one of her first teaching jobs. I have always been aware of the difficulties of the industry and consider myself to have come into the profession with my eyes wide open -- no naive idealism here.
Still, I think this year and an experience like this -- where seemingly no one in power is willing to go to bat and take a swing at the right thing -- leaves me much more jaded than when I began it.
I hope for your sake that you are able to recover from the shock of unemployment quickly and can return to teaching and learning with the joy they gave you previously.
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