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  1. 05-27-2008, 10:17 PM #1
    billybob
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    The silence is broken at last....

    Two principals have expressed an interest in talking with me today.

    That's doubly good because I have decided to decline the offer my present principal posed to me on Friday. The more I pondered it over the weekend, the less sense it made for me. Yes, I would be in a different grade level, but in the same school with the same weak and vascillating leadership, the same perils as before. Why would I want to do that?

    In addition, when I spoke, today, to the teacher I would be teamed with, she made me aware of some issues I did not know about. Suffice to say I would be getting myself into a situation I don't need to be in. "nough said. 8)
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  2. 05-27-2008, 11:50 PM #2
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    C'grats Billybob! Hope things work out for you.
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  3. 06-03-2008, 04:33 AM #3
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  4. 06-03-2008, 09:28 PM #4
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    It didn't. Part way into the inteview, the principal abruptly realized that she had already filled the position (that same day) that she was interviewing me for.

    "I didn't know you wanted 6th grade!" she said.

    The ONLY thing I had ever mentioned to her WAS 6th grade, nothing else. Talk about having all the wind taken from my sails!

    The principal apologized profusely, but now that I've had time to ponder it all, I suspect she did this purposefully. Her school is a mere ten minute drive from my present one and is in the same "zone" as my school. Principals tend to stick together and cover one another. I believe she was reluctant to take a teacher from a school so close to hers.

    As to the other principal, he informs me that their interviewing process will most likely not even begin until late June. The positions he has are both elementary high gifted classroom positions, ones I am emminetly qualified to be in, yet they are "waiting" on their "numbers." I've heard that before.
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  5. 06-04-2008, 12:24 AM #5
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