Stability

Yesterday, I watched a National Geographic documentary on Magma and, basically, there is none.  Humans try to make it out like we can get some.  Even Machiavelli wrote something about the same types of people living today as throughout history.  But, you can't walk into a job, clock in everyday on time, get along with others, work hard at doing well, and just expect the job to be there at the end of the day because it is at the end of the day when it always happens.  The boss calls you in after you're too tired to go postal (not that anyone else is there to loose your sanity on by then) and tells you that you aren't enough.  Some part of something you do is just not what they were hoping for.  But they never communicate what they ARE hoping for to you BEFORE "letting you go".  It's like a whole generation of people made to study communication and interpersonal relations who think that was all just for the grade in college.  Or, maybe it isn't you.  And it isn't them.  It's just this damned economy.

So, here's what I'd like to say to the principal who just cut my husband's class load, effectively making him a part time teacher... You have made a mistake.  You looked at the Algebra book and only saw the students are "behind' instead of seeing how far they've come since the new guy plugged in.  Did you remember that he IS the new guy?  Did you remember that your bf you paid to come from out of the country wasn't even a licensed teacher and had to be deported when he lost his work visa?  Did you remember that your students lost THREE WEEKS of algebraic instruction while you looked for the right man for the job.  And when you found him, you let him flail there, mid-semester, without so much as giving him the copy code for the office printer or a handshake of welcome.  Did you recognize the relationships he's developing with the students in his class?  Did you see him learn how to help the autistic girl participate instead of sitting in the corner?  Did you notice he enriched the ESL student who speaks English by recognizing his inability to READ it and taking the time to administer his tests VERBALLY so this student would no longer fail?  No.  And it is a mistake on your part.

A mistake that may cost us another bump in our financial plan, but will cost your school a fantastic physics teacher.  Principals, like magma, have the power to reshape the way a school runs.  Little wonder your other teachers believe you are preparing to destroy it.