Don’t know how I feel about this. This is the news I’ve been hinting at.
Was told by the principal that they couldn’t find a new CS teacher and didn’t want to lose the PreAP/AP CS program. They can find an ESL teacher. I get to keep my Algebra I repeaters. 35 x 3 of the most interesting students you’ll every meet — right now, the new ones are tagging my room (graffitt) and stealing stuff — we got over that in September, I hoped, but I have a different set of kids. I get to stay in my room with them. We had a very high passing rate last semester, but many of them had passed 2nd semester and were only lacking first semester.
I get to go to the computer lab three classe periods and teach in that room for 4 days. For one day, I get to teach them in someone else’s class room for three periods. Longer story. Not worth getting into.
They haven’t had any instruction since school started.
Bet I lose more weight.
I will do what is best for my kids and for my school I’m also not sure I’m the best teacher for the ESL students I have right now — most of them are extremely low level — we have moved all but one student who had talent in math. Many of them have not gone to school before they came to ours. Some weren’t allowed, some didn’t have schools, and in one sad case, no one cared enough to make him go to school. I can teach high school math to non-English speakers who have some skills — they are doing well in the higher level course. I am not doing well with kids who don’t have skills.
Don’t know when the job change will happen.
I feel like the saint of lost causes — but then that was what I was unofficially canonized for when I was in college — I tutored handicapped students taking CS and the CS professors got together and unofficially canonized me for it. Hey, the pay was $20.00 an hour when Work Study pay was under $3.00 who wouldn’t do it.