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.
April 09, 2006
I fired my intern
The title pretty much says it all. My senior intern, a person who looked to me as a mentor, has been acting increasingly irresponsible and lazy this term. He did not want to do any work in class. The last straw was when he left class without permission to carry a friend's guitar amplifier to her car. If he had been caught without a pass, I would have been the one chewed out. I ran into him wandering around campus after school and asked where he had gone. He told me the story and said that I had told him it was ok. Sure. I hated getting rid of him but I can't have him wandering around campus like that. Also, his lack of motivation was making him a liability when it came to setting up and conducting labs. Occasionally a teacher has to do things they really wish they did not have to do.
Posted by Ken Albin on April 9, 2006 09:25 PM