The California Budget Crisis strikes again

[pat]

D's teacher has been axed for next year. This is not a surprise, because she was a first year teacher. It is however a major disappointment -- she is an excellent teacher, and I am annoyed that we will be losing her. I hope she can find a job someplace; it would be criminal if she did not have a classroom of kids to work with.

Meanwhile, the old harpy who last year either actively encouraged or at least passively allowed other kids to tease/harass D because he was different is still here, by virtue of having twenty years seniority in the district. (It was not just D, either: another child in the class told a parent this year that he wishes he could have poisoned her. She did not like children who were not tidy, obedient, and quiet -- so she had it out for most of the boys in the class.)

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[lizw.livejournal.com]

My Dad was an English teacher before he retired, and taught at various levels over the years from 10-year-olds to adults in their 30s. He always said he was amazed to find how many people thought it was a really good idea to go and teach in schools when they didn't actually like kids.