A Thin Veil and a Stained Glass Cross
Last year was one of the most difficult years of my life. I had finished three years of educational consulting with the school board. They didn't want me back for a fourth year. I thought I'd be printing resumes, putting on a suit and doing interviews. The board owed me a job, but I thought I'd have no control over where I landed. I was told this when I started my three years as a consultant. Still, after nearly thirty years of teaching, the prospect of landing in a really hard school and/or driving for forty minutes to and from work in my last year before retirement wasn't a thrill. And I have to say, at the time, the rejection stung. Unbeknownst to me, the last school I taught at had to take me back. The principal called and told me she received an "obligation memo" -- if I wanted back in, they had to take me. I took it. In September of 2015, I was back at the last school in which I had taught prior to my consulting gig. I did a five year stint there...