School will reopen here in less than 2 weeks. All summer I have looked for a job in this area to no avail. I don't know if it's the fact that I have a master's, my GPA is a 4.0, my certification is out-of-state, or that those viewing my resume feel I am overqualified which could potentially fuel me to ask for a higher pay, but I am over trying to break my neck to prove something to these douches. If you want to hire me fine, I can outperform with the best of them, and if you don't hire me, someone will.
Now with all of this I called a parent and alum who happens to teach in my daughter's self contained environment yesterday just to catch up. Of course there were some changes she had to inform me on. The great LEA we have had for 2 years up and found a job closer to home. This is fine but a few weeks prior to this leave she made promises to those who work in my daughter's class and to me on how she wanted the direction of the curriculum to go. Great!! I was satisfied and very pleased that she was even trying. My experiences with LEA's are that most just simply do their job and hope that your child can benefit from the curriculum, environment, and everything that goes along with that but they usually don't go out of their way.
Taking this information in I felt robbed. It's like I can never really trust the school officials to do as they say when it comes to providing the education that my child and all others with in that self contained environment need. Yes doing their job is what they should do but to me that's basics. Many who are in self contained classrooms will be there the duration of their school career so to me it makes more sense to set up a complex, streamlined curriculum that will address the general, pervasive needs of all to be educated in such an environment and then go in and create individual curricula for each student addressing their futures and current state.
So what do I do now? Move, keep doing what I do (I don't really depend on school to teach my child much), or just keep an open mind for the new LEA (who used to work in this district before which I can't understand why you would leave and then come back. Comfort?) I'm going to try to keep an open mind but I have written this district off as total BS after this news. Every year there is someone new. It's like it's viewed as a district where you can get a job to tide you over to the next best thing. And if you actually try to do something for the long term, you may get hit with roadblocks from superintendents and such who feel it's a waste to put money, the proper amount of supports for teachers, and thought into the area.
How can you ever really educated these kids and accommodate their needs when there is always an employment revolving door where special education is concerned?
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