Next Year
As most of you are aware and as I’ve explained to some of you, my future as a teacher at CDO is highly dubious. Every day it becomes more likely that I’ll not be invited back to teach for 2009-2010. To quell any misunderstandings, I thought I’d elaborate that my imminent departure is a matter of budget and not behavior. I’m not in trouble and haven’t done anything (at least to my knowledge) to earn the disfavor of any body in authority.
The fact is the Arizona legislature has decided to cut education spending and so districts have had to similarly cut costs which means thousands of teachers and other school personnel across the state are facing unemployment. Sadly (for me and Mrs. Girard and Debabu and Zufan, anyway) I’m one of those affected. If I’ve seemed distracted and have been more behind than usual in getting work back to you for the past while, this is the reason and I hope you’ll accept my apologies.
Of course, it’s my first desire to stay at CDO. I was whole-heartedly looking forward to working with the unprecedented 110 students who registered for Advanced Placement English Language and Composition next year. I’ve enjoyed designing and building APELC these last two years and I’ll miss the opportunity to work with new students and siblings of students-past for whom I’ve been preparing a revised curriculum next. As I understand the class-assignments for 2009-2010, the sections comprised of those future APELCers will now most likely be split among two teachers.
I also regret that I’ll miss the chance to work with this year’s freshmen I’ve identified as potential-APELCers their junior and senior years. And certainly I’ll miss all of the students that have ever spent time in and even those who just pass by T-12 every day.
We still have two weeks left though, and so there’s no time or effort to waste. Stay focused and do your best on the remaining tasks and this school year’ll be over before you know it.
It’s good to be a Dorado.