Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: criveraville on March 08, 2011, 01:17:22 am
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I guess the budget crisis has hit close to home. I teach first grade and she teaches Kindergarten one hall over. It's her first year with the district and most new year teachers were let go today. She might have a job next year if she takes and passes a test to teach another subject area..
Life is not fair, but we are still blessed beyond what we deserve and we continue to be thankful for what we are given each day.
Cipriano
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I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully something better is out there for her. Your positive attitude is refreshing.
George
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Man I know how you feel, my wife is a reading specialist and this is her first year too. I think if she wasn't getting her masters she would never have been able to get the job she has. It's an experimental position at the school shes at, so who knows what will happen next year. It sounds like you have the right frame of mind though, just count your blessings and hopefully you will see another door open.
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My daughter in law is a third grade teacher,she has been there 6 years and is tenured,the bad thing is when they do let teachers go,they put the extra load on everyone else. Its insane to cut education,what happens to those kids that dont get enough teaching? Sorry for the loss
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>:( I see so many good folks losing their jobs. I am so sorry to hear that. I got laid off 2 years ago and it just plain sucks! I got laid off 2 years ago and understand how frustrating it is and how powerless I felt. Tell her to hang in there and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers!--Josh
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your family will be in our thoughts and prayers!
Seconded!
I was made redundant just days before Christmas. Though part of me is glad for the time off (and no longer facing a life sentence for inevitably ending my IDIOT of a former boss), there's another part of me that feels "lost" without the routine in my life any more.
Sounds like your wife has a plan though, with the test for another subject area. Fingers crossed for you both :)
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Sorry to hear that,hope things work out. :)
Pappy
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I have personal knowledge of your feelings. My granddaughter in Portland is a fifth year teacher and all the staff at that school are worried about being caught in the crunch. I taught and coached for 15 years and if it wasn't for welding on pipelines in the summer we would have starved to death. When I finally decided to weld full time I felt like I had wasted my education but it was for the best. Tell your wife to apply for substitute teaching at several area schools and she will find that can be rewarding and a potential for a future position! I missed the kids, especially on my wrestling teams, but I really was glad to get away from the administrators, school board, and radical parents. A/Ho Joe
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Thank you guys.. It is a different world than our grandparents grew up in, but this is still the greatest nation on earth and we will all over come.. I am sorry to hear that many people out there are in a similiar situation, there is hope in tomorrow ;D
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Keep that positive attitude and remember to give her lots of extra in the next few weeks. After the numbness wears off she'll need you more than ever. You are her coach and her head cheerleader. I'll be up here rooting for you guys, too.
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Sorry to hear that. I don't mean to add more misery, but I really don't see things getting any better, for quite a while. In fact, I do believe things are going to get a lot worse. You can't be in debt to China, be off the Gold Standard, and print money like you are selling monopoly sets, and not have it all crash down on you. I do hope she gets rehired, and the substitute idea in the mean time is an excellent idea. Good luck, and God bless.
Wayne
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Dear Criveraville !
I know that words can cured and kill but in this situation words are nothing !
Only action of herself and Your support and help will make miracle.
She must make all by Her own brains and her 11 number - ( by the legs).
In country where I live People after 40 let about 50 are becoming nothing.
After colaps of the State We were not ready, that woman can be though out on the street because of the age, and if They are refused to sleep with boss.
But just now it is our terrible realities.
If it is capital of the State where I live teacher can survive, if it is province the salary is so awful little, that one teacher must work for three salaries, as one salary only for the death.
I wish to Your wife remember, that She is young and Her life only begines.
She must cheere up and begine to find new job.
My two American aquantances were fifty five, and 97, both died two years ago in one month.
One was happy as She find herself in work and hobby, the another lost all besides of job, as Her husband was fantastic high American boss, but losted hope.
She had to work for Herself for Him and for the hopes of the two.
She was broken by absent of the hope, as She could not change his motivation to the face's hope, unfortunatly.
I see that You did not lost hope, that You both overdone.
I wish both of You a good way.
Remember You are both Young.
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know how you feel. i've been teaching 14 years and still worry a bit this time of year. if they keep cutting the only ones that'll be left would be the administrators. that will be sad and funny at the same time because the majority of them that i've worked with have already proven that they can't teach so they administrate. i have a fellow who taught elementary pe for three years and he's trying to explain to me how to teach honors and cp biology.
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It is very odd that teachers would be dismissed like that. You would think that educating the young would take take precedence over most everything else since they are the future.
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You would think. However, when it comes to political decisions, logic seldom matters. :o :o oops, I typed the P-word. :P
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Think of it as governmental spending stimulation for the future. Schooling a kid for a year costs a couple thousand dollars but holding them later in prison runs about $25,000. Puts more $$$ in circulation, right?
*grrrrr*
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Same here,My wife lost her job(executive at insurance company)about 6 months ago.I,m a self employed construction and remodeling guy and work has been slow.This past week has been good with signing a few jobs but still slow nonetheless.Trudge forward-were still on our feet and breathing so that works for us.Have a great day!Lloyd
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JW thank you. You are right. It’s good days and bad days. Yes I am.. I appreciate that much.
Stickbender you are right.. “I can handle the truth” Amen. Me too!! Thank you.
Readfox thank you for the encouragement. You are certainly right. It sounds like it could most definitely be worse. It always can. We are young. I think.. I am 40….
Mechslasher, yes it is a worrisome time of year when contracts come up in March. Texas is an “at will” state. Not much in worker rights. Too funny about the administrators.
Marc St Louis, it would seem so. Unfortunately it is not the case. I do believe that all these budget cuts in education will have far more expensive consequences in the long run.
gstoneberg you did use the P word.. But yes and the words that comfort me in that conundrum are, ““Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”
predatorcaller I am sorry to hear that. I imagine it has been stressful for you as well, but amen to the still breathing!!! In fact, it is much more than that for us. We are blessed beyond what we deserve and for that I am grateful everyday..
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Sorry to hear that - I teach advanced bio and some other science electives. We are losing several excellent young teachers in our county this year. The most painful thing is watching people in the community who should know better bash the profession as a whole. I wish you both the best of luck - hang in there.