Nobody warned me how bad it would hurt being an itinerant/floating school SLPA
I started this job in January 2025 and have been so fortunate to be able to get my hours in, become licensed, and stay at my "home" (#1 location, where my performance eval + supervising principals are) elementary school 2-3 days/week while also splitting my time between 1-2 other schools. I know the kids on my home school caseload so well that I could (from memory) write a list of all 60 something of their names AND list at least one of their speech/language goals. I've built rapport with these kids and care so deeply for them.
Well, my supervising SLP that became a close friend and mentor helping me get my hours in is leaving next year. My heart was already hurting. But now I just got word that I will likely be working with high school (potentially exclusively - maybe 1 day/week left for elementary) next school year based on updated caseload numbers and lots of staffing changes. While I am so happy to be following my current 9th graders to 10th grade (we have a 9th grade center that is it's own school), I am genuinely struggling to hold back tears that I could be in my final days of working with my elementary students that I have known for a year and a half now.
I know it's just part of the job going where I am most needed based on ever changing caseload numbers and staff turnover and I am confident I will be successful at any school in the district that I am placed at, but this HURTS hurts you guys😭