Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
September 09, 2005
We lost another science teacher
The big news today is that our new young chemistry teacher has received an offer from a lab and he will be quitting immediately. That makes two science teachers we've lost in the past three weeks here. This sinks the morale even lower. I think it stinks that he is bailing out on his classes after contracting to teach them for this year. The kids are really being cheated out of a decent education when this happens. It's getting harder all the time to keep good teachers here since the administration divided up the science department by sending the entire 9th grade out to the portable slums. I could say 'I told you so' but it wouldn't do any good.
The rosacea is a little worse this week with the high humidity and heat we've been having. Stress has been a factor too. The heart has been acting up on occasion with extra beats. I've really exhausted at this point, having put in a lot of energy this week in labs, lectures, and all the other mundane things that need doing at school. Nothing seems to go smoothly these days. My door lock has been broken for a month. I sent emails and notes to the custodial head with no results. An email was then sent to an assistant principal who forwarded it to the custodial head. I got a curt response from him stating that a part was ordered for the lock and it would be installed in a week. That was over a week ago and of course the lock is still broken. The only time I see the administrators is when they want me to do something. That's life at our little corner of heaven here. The little things never get fixed and every time we interact with the administration they make our teaching more difficult. They then wonder why teachers are leaving. Hmmmm....
Posted by Ken Albin on September 9, 2005 09:13 PM