So I'm new to this whole blog thing. So i'm just going to say whats on my mind and possibly get some feed back. So this is me and my story.
Last December my wife Krissy graduated from the education program at ISU. She has worked pretty hard for the last 6 years to get this degree, why did it take her so long? She worked full time for about 5 out of those 6 years. So now that she is done with school its time for her to find a job. The semester has already started so nobody is really hiring teachers, so there is only really substituting available. Subing is really hit and miss, as you could imagine. Very difficult to try and manage income when you don't know where it will be. So thats the background, I'm probably boring you but no one is making your read this..... On Jan 18th of this year there was a first grade teacher at Washinton school decided to walk out on her job one Friday afternoon. Nobody knows for sure why, although there are rummors of affairs with students parents and a possible devorce with her own husband. No one knows the exact answer, but at any rate that leaves the first grade without a teacher. Krissy applied interviewed and got the job. The title is a long term sub that would be there for the rest of the semester (May.) Finnally we got our big break!!! By the way we are going to call this former 1st grade teacher "Tiffany" why? because thats her name, no secrets here. So Tiffany walked out on her job for so called "personal" reasons. Now Tiffany has about a months vacation she has to burn before she needs to return to her classroom. ( we have to pause here for a second. How many of you reading this can say that if you walked out on your job you would have one when you wanted to come back? In my experience of employment if you walked out on the job you were pretty much quitting right then and there.) Ok so back to the story. So her 1 month is up and its time for her to return to her classroom which puts Krissy out of a job. (crappy I know) However, Tiffany decides that 1 month isn't long enough. She puts in an appeal with the school district for 6 weeks disability leave. So guess what? She gets it!!! unbelievable!!! There goes some more of our tax money to pay for someone to avoid work because of a mental state that was self inflicted......... Last Friday March 20th was the end of her 6 week "extented" leave. Tiffany was expecting to get her classroom back and finish out the year. Wrong! You don't have to be intelligent to guess that Tiffany wasn't a very good teacher. She had no patients with kids, she was a very unorganzied slob, she was also very disliked by students, parents, and even staff. We knows this because it all came out during parent teacher conferences that were held 3 weeks ago. So to us its a blessing for the kids, parents, staff, and especially Krissy to be able to finish out the year as their teacher. She is paid based on 7.5 hour days, she usually puts in close to 9 or 10 everyday. She even goes in on weekends to make sure she does everything she can to turn what was a miserable learning environment to a fun one. (letters from the parents prove that she is doing what she set out to do) She has also invested close to $200.00 in the form of DVD's, treats, games, decoration, rewards bulliten boards, ect... in an attempt to help make 1st grade fun for the kids.
Over the past month the principal has told Krissy to box up all of Tiffany's things and put them in a supply closet when she decides to come back to the school and get them. Its the middle of spring break so no one is at the school, so last night Krissy got one of those feelings that she needed to go to the school and see if Tiffany decided to get her stuff. She was horrified to see that not only did she come and get her stuff but she stole a lot of Krissy things including; DVD's, treats, decorations, books that belonged to the school, learnign supplies that belonged to the school such as white boards, even her desk and chair. To make things worse before she left she decided to trash and vandalize the whole classroom. Last but not least she took Krissy's bullitin board that she just got done spending $20 on and in its place stapled 2 smiley faces on the wall.
She spent the majority of the evening and night crying and asking me what we should do. Any ideas....
