Rantings of the Officially Unemployed

You'd think I'd be happy that the school year is over but I'm not. I'm too freaked out about not having a job for next year.

There are people who just don't get why I quit my job including people at the school. Hello? Where you not there this year? Are you completely oblivious to the working conditions? This school has a greater than 50% staff turn over rate year to year. Only 3 out of 11 teachers are returning next year. Two of them are only returning because they are so close to retirement they are too costly for other school divisions. When is admin going to clue in that they are the problem?

The thing that has bother me the most lately is the lying from administration. Two teachers and one teacher assistant were lied to about jobs for the future. The teachers were told that their services would not be needed because there would not be enough students next year (neither were planning to return anyway). A couple weeks later their jobs were advertised in the the newspaper. They were lied to because they spoke up about things going on at the school and administration did not have just cause to fire them. The teacher assistant was hired for a summer program then was told the summer program was canceled. They really had offered the job to someone else.