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I know, another post in one day, what will happen next?

I just heard some interesting details about my first real teaching job, which shall remain nameless to protect the innocent. (I quit because I was moving to Scotland, but would’ve quit regardless…):
–The principal (who was the owner’s 26-year-old daughter with a business degree and no teaching experience) is “on vacation”
–The assistant principal (probably the only person who’s got her act together there) is now the principal
–The PE teacher (who my students said didn’t really teach them much and when I did a Taebo workshop one day, the students probably got more of a workout there than in her PE class) was fired. This is also the scary makeup lady!
–The computer teacher who couldn’t speak anything besides ghetto-ized English quit. She also wanted to take over the school, so her leaving is a good thing.
–My friend, Jim, who is smart and didn’t fit in at that school either (an English major in college who taught math) moved to New York - maybe to teach - I must track him down.
–The science teacher and Spanish teacher have stuck it out, as well as the English teacher (who replaced my replacement [who was fired]).

As you can see, the school wasn’t so great; but it provided me some experience and hopefully I brightened some lives in my year there. All in all, I’m more thankful than ever to be far away from all that mess!

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