[Chalkdust]

Last week I was getting everything ready for school to begin.....a 6th grade class. I went to all the meetings, devotions (it was a christian elementary school) more meetings, got things copied, etc etc etc...Then the DAY OF PARENT ORIENTATION I got laid off due to enrollment.......but the thing was they had made the decision a WEEK before this!!!! They were not going to tell me till AFTER the Parent Orientation....I just feel betrayed. IT has brought up all kinds of feelings that are attached with my abuse issues. I am trying to look on the good side of this but its hard. It also makes me not want to try to trust anyone ever again. I mean I already have a difficult time with that. So the tuesday after labor day I will be job hunting.....not teaching most likely something else. I have been teaching for 18 years now it is time for a change....recently I was trying to make a decision to teach another three years and work on an education degree (my degree is not accredited - from a bible college) that would be accepted or go into Human Service/Social Work I made the decision to go towards Human Service....several days before th is happened. Why can't people just be honest? Why do bosses play like this with people's lives?

Chalkdust

[Hope4me2]

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so sorry this happened to you....sending you warm thoughts and lots of hugs

[jmo531]

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This is a terrible thing that has happened to you and I am sorry. I am sorry your feeling betrayed. I think I would probably feel the same. It sounds like you have a plan and it sounds pretty darn good to me.

Things always have a way of working out for the best. I wish you luck with this and please keep us posted.


Hugs,

Jen

[Parker10]

So sorry to hear you were treated that way ! How unfair. Perhaps this IS the opening of "another door" as the saying goes, and you can persue your interest in Human Services. Good luck with the job hunting !

[soonforgotten]

what an injustice to you; but I am glad to see that you haven't let it cripple your in goals in life and wish you all the best.
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i am so sorry that this happened to you.....best of luck job hunting....

[Myzen]

Chalkdust,

I read your previous posts about your career very carefully , and I remember them clearly. I sensed that you were worried about security at that time, and how important it is for you.

Looks like the changes have happened rather suddenly and brutally.

One thing I learned in my teaching career, and elsewhere, is that managers almost always treat employees in a sneaky way. The person that is to be layed off is always the last to know - and we are meant to like it?

One time my teaching load was doubled near to the end of a term, so I was paid more, and then I was abruptly laid off! Turns out the managers had to meet a quota before finishing a project so they just used me. Remember Willy Loman in Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' - "A man is not a piece of fruit!"

Well - tell that to the managers.

One good moment. I nearly went back into teaching, a friend was pushing me about it. Anyway I reluctantly went along to a college with her for an informal interview. I sat through an interminable meeting and then the woman turned to me and offered me a job, a cushy job in the open learning centre.

I remember smiling really nicely at her, and said, "You have a good team here, I'm very impressed, but it's not for me."
It was a lovely moment, I had finally put teaching behind me.

Chalkdust - this may turn out for the best. There is life after teaching and it can be a good life - it really can.

Good thoughts, M

[Chalkdust]

Thank-you everyone for your posts here. I am feeling better. I have not started looking for work yet because we had to move our things out of our storage unit so we didn't get charged another month's rent. I figured that nothing would happen till after this Labor Day weekend anyway. So, come Tuesday I will be out there looking. I have decided to look at this like a change of seasons. Seasons change, and so do times of careers. In the long run I know things will turn out for the better. I think what got to me most of all is that I really trusted this principal. I have a difficult time trusting other men anyway because of all thats happened in the past but I was starting to trust this guy...after three years of working with him. Then it just felt like "bam" a sudden and swift kick to the gut. I read something the other day that said (can't remember where it was) might of been someone's signature on here...."If you fall 1000 times...get up 1001 times" thats makes sense to me....So thats what I am doing......

Chalkdust

[seeker1950]

Hi, Chalk,
I am a middle school art teacher here in WV. I know the Arts are a low priority, and, in truth, if I were laid off, I'd be just a few months from homelessness. I sympathize with our loss of job.
Seeker