I am disappointed that I have not kept my promise to myself to keep up with the blog and post often but I've have been too busy for the last two months trying to cope with personal things to concentrate on this blog . Wow, has it really been that long?
On to guest teacher stuff. Not much to report really. We are waiting on some language changes in our contract with the district and the last time I checked that is what is keeping us from being able to look at a hard copy of the thing. I've had a couple guest teachers ask to see the contract -- negotiations ended a long time ago -- and it isn't there. Of course, the district is dealing with budget issues and everyone in that office is scrambling (I'm guessing) to keep operating so a teeny-tiny little guest teacher contract is not very important to them. Besides, we're still getting a paycheck and in the grand scheme of things that is what matters to most of us guest teachers.
One thing that is going on is that the district is conducting interviews to add 150 guest teachers to the 'sub list' and that worries me. The district contends that they need to add those people to the list but I believe the number is too high. Maybe 50 but not 150. That is a lot of guest teachers and with the economy the way it is more of us really depend on being out in the schools everyday. Too few of us are experiencing that frequency for me to believe the district needs to add that many teachers to the list. Of course, they didn't consult with me or any of the other of those of us who are still on the list or they wouldn't be adding anyone to it -- really!
Well, on that happy note I am going to end today's contribution to this blog. Have a good Monday.
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