I received the most distressing email this morning. One of the districts that I applied to a while back sent me a polite reminder that my application has been marked as inactive in their records. Inactive. Funny how one little word can be such an in your face reminder of all the things that I haven't been doing recently.
Glancing at my calendar makes me realize that I was smack in the middle of student teaching this time last year. Where has all the time gone? I suppose that sometimes life has a funny way of getting in the way of life goals. Becoming a teacher with my own classroom and room full of young minds has never been far from my heart. But somehow the little tasks that make up a day, a week a whole month creep in the way of what set me on this path in the first place.
Maybe I do need to quit my weekend job. Granted, it's only one day a week. But working 6 days a week is stretching my brain thin. By the time I get home at night all I really want to do is curl up on the couch and pet my dog, brush my cat and spend time with the Boyfriend.
Judging by the news, it doesn't seem like job hunting in the state of New Jersey is going to get any easier though. Apparently Gov. Chris Christie has proposed that teachers might be responsible for up to 30% of their benefits and he's generously offering to increase funding to school districts to a whopping 1% of their current year budgets (roughly increasing state education aide by $250 million per year).
Maybe it's high time to move to sunnier climes...
Glancing at my calendar makes me realize that I was smack in the middle of student teaching this time last year. Where has all the time gone? I suppose that sometimes life has a funny way of getting in the way of life goals. Becoming a teacher with my own classroom and room full of young minds has never been far from my heart. But somehow the little tasks that make up a day, a week a whole month creep in the way of what set me on this path in the first place.
Maybe I do need to quit my weekend job. Granted, it's only one day a week. But working 6 days a week is stretching my brain thin. By the time I get home at night all I really want to do is curl up on the couch and pet my dog, brush my cat and spend time with the Boyfriend.
Judging by the news, it doesn't seem like job hunting in the state of New Jersey is going to get any easier though. Apparently Gov. Chris Christie has proposed that teachers might be responsible for up to 30% of their benefits and he's generously offering to increase funding to school districts to a whopping 1% of their current year budgets (roughly increasing state education aide by $250 million per year).
Maybe it's high time to move to sunnier climes...
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