Reply #29: All hail! [View All]

[chervilant]

From one of the "older teachers" who "cost too much": I am right with you on the screwed up health care system being the likely reason I won't see the outcome of this disgusting assault on public education...

Right now, I cannot even get schools to INTERVIEW me for a position! I have a perfect score on my PPR, one of the highest scores in my cohort on my Generalist 4-8, veteran teachers and other educators exclaiming over my ability to teach, and--trumping ALL of that--vociferous praise from my students about how I 'make learning math fun' and 'explain math so clearly!' Yet, I remain unemployed and a breath away from homelessness because I would cost a school more than a younger, newly-minted teacher.

I have had a series of bad days, wherein I am so despondent that I sit in front of my laptop with tears rolling down my face. Such a sad, sad world we live in these days...