The News

I have been waiting to find out if my job will be permanent. Well, sadly, I have to leave my students. I always knew this could happen, and I am concerned about leaving my kids with someone who is clearly not up to the job, I have no choice. I am going to knit socks.

Happy Knitting!

Bad, bad, bad Blogger

In my defense, I have been very busy the past few months. Being a first year teacher is time consuming. I think I am hitting my stride though. I hope to know this week if I have a regular job or not. I will keep you all posted.

Speaking of keeping anyone who still looks at this blog posted, I have a goal to write something, anything at least every three days this month. I know that people try and hit everyday in November, but that won't be happening.

So, let's just see how I do, and forgive me if I fall silent again.

Happy knitting!

I accepted a job

It was a long search, but I have accepted a job teaching 8th grade Language Arts. Right now, the job is temporary, but there is a real good chance that the job will become permanent. Sadly, I will be filling in for someone who is young and very sick.

I am happy with the school district. I accepted the job because of the small town feel, the clean and friendly town, and I really liked all the people I met in the school. I am making arrangements to see the classroom and pick up my curriculum materials. I am so excited.

Happy Knitting!

Happy Fourth

And Happy knitting!

Today is my birthday!

I am two days younger than the Yarn Harlot!

I am spending most of my day filling out job applications. The last one took two hours.

All the crap that I haven't been blogging about

Well, I applied for a job at the school I had been working at for several years. Some of you may remember when I got this job. The pay was extremely low, and the work was difficult (mostly because I was given little to no instruction about how to do the job to begin with). I worked hard, learned a lot, and was successful. The main reason I took the job was to get my foot in the door, make a name for myself, and hopefully, get a good job.

So, I got my teaching license. There was an opening at the very school I had been working at. I had a letter of recommendation from the building principal. I had it all, good letters, excellent grades, and superior test scores. I thought I had done everything right, and that I would get the job I wanted. The student even like me.

There is no loyalty in education.

I was passed up for the job. While no one will admit it, I know that it is because of my graduate credits. I have had a BA for several years, but I couldn't get a teaching position last year because I didn't have a license. So, I got the license, but now I can't get a teaching position because I had to go to graduate school to get the license. In addition, I had dropped out of grad school (for an MA in English) several years ago. I am being turned down for being highly qualified and well educated. I am totally pissed about it too.

So, I am sad, depressed, and mad as hell. I am applying for other jobs, but very upset that I didn't get the one I SHOULD have gotten.

I'll post something happier about knitting latter this week. Knitting has been a great comfort to me.

Happy knitting!

DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

I have finished (finally) student teaching. While the job outlook is a bit grim, I am working my connections (it is nice to have a few). Right now, I am just happy to be done with all the classes, and teaching in someone's classroom (very hard to be a guest in someone's room after having my own, however small it may have been). I am going to start knitting Hey Teach to reward myself (and give me something professional and hand knit to wear).

Happy Knitting!