Change is Hard

I still don't know where I will be teaching next year. As of Friday, my principal said he thinks our projected enrollment is wrong and that we may be able to keep my job and the two other jobs that were displaced. On a bright note, Monroe will need a special ed. teacher and I have already taken one test to be certified for special ed, so I signed up to take the other one in June and hopefully I will pass it and be able to at the very least take the special ed position to stay at Monroe, but I have definitely decided that I will need to get out of SLPS next year. Although I do feel that the I am making a small difference in the lives of a few kids, there is just too much political nonsense to make it worthwhile. I want to teach, and this isn't teaching, this is providing a safe place for these kids to spend 8 hours a day before they have to go home to their awful lives. I feel sad that this is how it is but sometimes one person can only do so much!

Turn of Events

Well my leave has had a major upheaval of late, I am being displaced from my job. I'm not fired or let go but they are transferring me to a different school. It is really upsetting because I have made a lot of friends here and I don't want to leave them plus I want to continue my emints training and I may be going to a school that doesn't offer emints. It is also very troubling because I had an opportunity to transfer to a different school next year in April but I turned it down thinking I wanted to stay where somewhere that I knew the principal and the teachers. Now it looks like I will be in a very undesireable location. Plus our district is in such major turmoil that this all may change again before it's all said and done. I started thinking that I must have done something bad to have deserved such a fate but I know that it isn't only me, it is also two other teachers in my building plus a couple hundred across the district. I guess that I have to put my faith in the fact that God has a plan for me and he will lead me to where I will need to go, it just feels so stressful to have no control over this situation. I will keep you posted.

The End Is Near

Well it has been a while since I last blogged but as the school year winds down, the paperwork increases. So that is what I have been doing for the last few weeks. I have also been busy with a project for my aunt. We were celebrating her 60th birthday and I needed to make a project for my emints class using the microsoft moviemaker program. So I combined the two and made a movie for my favorite aunt Sandy. It took about 40 hours to complete but it was well worth it. I combined old pictures and new pictures with words and music into a 20 minute this is your life kind of movie. It turned out great and brought a tear to everyone's eyes at the party. And my teacher was very impressed as well.

I am going to take a class this summer in educational technology through the University of MO-Columbia. It's an online class and the first I will be taking towards my master's degree. I am excited to be getting my masters through Mizzou as that is where I originally started my undergrad but ended up finishing at UMSL. Plus my emints training will count for 9 hours towards my degree and that is very sweet since the traiing has so far consisted of over 100 hours of class time.

On the home front, not much to report. The kids are relaly getting excited about the end of school and our upcoming trip to Disney World June 12-18th. I got our plane tickets last night and booked a reservation for a character breakfast at the Polynesian Resort. It is the Ohana Breakfast, which for Lilo and Stitch fans means Family in Hawaiin. So it will inlcude Mickey and friends and Lilo and Stitch. Should be fun and I can't wait to post the pictures.

Glad to be back in the blogging world, I will have to see about posting my movie to this blog.