Friday, November 7th

What a flippin' day. School is just going to stress me completely out. I know it. I found out about this the other day, but I spent the night last night grading papers all evening and didn't get a chance to post, so... it's all going to be here.

We found out yesterday that we are losing two inclusion teachers to another school because the administration of the school district says that we have too many teachers for our special education department. They have to report to their new schools on Monday. That's not the kicker though. The kicker is that the inclusion teachers were taken from the English Department. It now means that *I* am the ONLY Inclusion teacher for the whole English department. This is not good. You see. We have special education students in all grades from 9 - 12.

I knew that this was going to affect me, so I decided that I was going to be proactive and go in this morning and send an email to the two people who do the scheduling at KHS. The email that I sent basically said the following:

"I went to all the teachers who had the two inclusion teachers that we are losing and have decided to be pro-active and see where I was needed the most. I can either do one of two things:
1) I can help Mr. Myers out 1st period - he has 12 inclusion students and needs the help dearly. However, a new content mastery teacher will need to be found for first period and I can also go into Mr. Wilson's class 7th period and help out there as well. He has 7 inclusion students and it would help him out as well. I'm willing to lose my conference period to go into an overload status. I would hate to have the kids schedule be changed.
or
2) If you feel it better to pull the students out of the inclusion class and put them in a class where I'm teaching them - I could be my own inclusion teacher with my certification - or be a resource teacher. Whichever. I just hate changing the kids up when they have their own schedule set so far in the year.

I'm just want to do what's best for the kids."

So... I talked with both of the people that my email went to. One said that I was the best and would look into what might happen. My boss told me that he was leaning more toward moving the kids into my control. But things haven't been settled yet. So, Key has told me she wants me to be in Eric's room starting on Monday to at least help out. It might all change, but at least he's getting the help that he needs until things change.

So... yeah, I'm stressed. I don't even know if I'll have the same classes as I do now.

I think that I'm just going to try to do the right thing and go where God wants me to go and do what He wants me to do. It's quite simple to just follow... and do what I need to do. So... I guess that's what I'll do.

I *knew* that they were going to mess with me as soon as this happened. So, I guess being proactive and initiating the conversation about it makes it look a little less of them telling me what I'm going to do and more of what I want to do.

I need a drink. Strong. Water ain't cutting it.

~MJ