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The state of public ed is a red flag. Not only did many of us ignore red flags in an interview, we ignored red flags during our entire credentialling process, choosing instead to lean on the old "I'm going to help my community and influence young minds to be their very best" standby. What a hoax! We got caught up in the rhetoric and propaganda and now here we are.
That said, there are a handful of nice districts and schools with great people at the healm. But that's the short term and admin /leadership changes.
Honestly even if you had a great interview, it likely would've meant they were just hiding the flags until after the appetizer.
Oh, copy that! I recently saw a video from an excellent professor regarding college education and I truly feel I was blind to what I did see and hear while getting my undergrad and Masters in Teaching.
For me, the red flag was after I was hired. It was when I showed up for the new teacher orientation. For a small district, there were a lot of people.
I have now been here for over eight years. I have seen that there is roughly a 20% annual turnover in this district. Even though I have now been here long enough to see why the turnover is so high. However it is still cause for alarm.
Yup. I ignored it because I badly needed the job. Still stuck here, but I'm mustering up the courage (and funds) to transfer elsewhere.
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1) My current principal basically asked me to demo all day… essentially be an unpaid sub. 2) same principal berated the secretary in front of me. Should have known.
I did when I interviewed and accepted my first teaching job a couple of years ago, but I was just so excited for the opportunity. It was a difficult school, but I did gain valuable experience. I thought things seemed a bit scattered, and they were, but it all worked out and now I'm at a school I'm much happier with!
Yes. I completely understand where you're coming from. I also experienced the same thing back in my first job. That was a tough lesson to learn.
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I’ve ignored red flags twice. A principal hired me to teach middle school a few weeks before school began. It was a position with 6 preps and two grade levels! I was a new-to-profession teacher and there was no mentorship. I cried a lot at night, but I lasted about 2.5 years and then went to private school.
When I moved to this state, I ignored the neighborhood the school was located in because I had inner city experience and had only worked in poor neighborhoods in my home state. They hired me to teach TX History— a person from halfway across the county! I lasted 6 weeks and went out on a medical after getting hit by a student who was fighting another girl. It was a very violent place and the inmates were running the asylum. Absolutely no education happened there, and that school is still terrible.
Fortunately, my last two jobs have been in good schools (rural and suburban) with great people, so it all worked out, and I grew as a teacher once I found the right places. But I almost left teaching behind. My 20’s were very difficult!!
Not at this role but at my last. I def know what it is like to ignore the red flags and see them clear as day later. I think this has happened to all of us at one point or another.
Can't say I haven't been there because I definitely have been in your position before. You can never really know fully until you are already thrust in that position. Don't blame yourself it happens and most of the time it's not even your fault.
Yes. I did it twice. That's why I switched schools as soon as possible. I learned my lesson.