Okay, well I wasn't really fired, but Paul thinks it's funny to say that I was fired and that's what he tells the children. I happen to be a part time Resource Teacher with very little seniority. When schools hire an extra part time Resource Teacher it's usually because they've squeezed some extra money or have a few extra special needs kids. They can't be considered long term positions and when you have the least seniority, you're the first out the door. Anyway in April 2008 I was given notice that I had been "surplussed" which means "there's no work at this school but we think there is elsewhere in the district". Within a week my school had figured something out and picked me back up. In April 2009 they let me go again with the promise that "things could change". They didn't change, but I found a nice position at another school and I was promised by the district that I had three years protection against being surplussed. Paul said I won the "immunity idol". We don't watch Survivor, but he thought it was funny anyway. In May 2010 I received notice that my position had been eliminated. "But what about my protection?" apparently this situation didn't qualify, but they did offer me a part time classroom position instead teaching grade one/two. So, I decided not to look for Resource elsewhere but to stay put at my school... okay so that's the background.
Shortly thereafter during dinner, Spencer and Hayley had their heads in their hands and were shaking their heads. "What will we do?" they said. "How can we show our faces in public?". "Our mother only works ten months out of the year and she only works half of the week and every year she gets FIRED!!" They are so naughty, but they were so funny!
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