Friday, May 20, 2005

Your opinon is valued

I have a small yet selfish delemia. I have 3 (well really 2) job offers for August. For those of you who do not know I am a teacher. My current position is at a small Charter school where I teach Middle School technology. They pay me fairly well and I am given free acces to write the curriculum. This school also pays me an extra $180 a pay check to help with school computer needs. In August we the school will be moving to a "new" facility. I wil be teaching both Middle and High School Technology. I will be allowd to design my lab. The largest downside is the retirement plan, wich is a 401(b) for education. Other positives is that I was in the paper for "tossing" a student out of my class. I only barely pushed him out the door and the school stood behind me. The only other real negatives is the lack of disciplinary options avaible, whil emy class is generaly under control due to structure and control, my fellow new teachers dont have the ability to control classes.

The other two jobs are basicaly the same. The public schools have inited me to teach AutoCAD at either of the High Schools. The schools are much larger and I would only be teaching High School aged students. The retirement plan is nice in that if I teach for 15 years with no imput on my side I can retire. If I choose the old school I will have the oppurtunity to be the head lacrosse coach. If I choose the new school I will asked to be the head Middle School lacrosse coach, witch I have done before. Going to the new school would be nice in that I wold be in the inagural staff and have my name forever engraved on a plaque. The biggest down sides I see are three:

1. I dont want to abondon my Father beung his best teacher and all.

2. My current school has supported me thruogh my "mis-adventures" and I relly like a few of the teachers I work with (namely Brady, Marc and Jeff.)

3. My biggest hesitation is that I was promised a job in Janurary. I moved here, bought a house and force my lovely fiance to move with me. After a week of half answers I was told I was not getting the job. Later it was discovered it was because of the Superintendants dislike of my father, what a lame ploy. So since the not-so-Super hates my family, the students dont leant technology this semester. Yes they

1 Comments:

At 12:04 PM, Blogger TheRealDookie said...

My advice is to have a parent-teacher conference. And, since both of your parents are both parents, and teachers, you should just ask them what they think you should do. Do you see yourself being a teacher in ten years, or are you just trying to make enough money to develop and market an edible pornographic magazine? These are the questions you should ask yourself.

 

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