u/Sufficient_Cod_7512

I recently posted maybe a day or two ago. I was talking with my wife because I’m little stressed about getting a new job. I had two interviews. I got the emails that they’re going in a different direction and in my last post I mentioned maybe the interviews weren’t the best. I haven’t had an interview in seven years. My wife thought maybe it’s you unfortunately showing up to these interviews with your crutches, I have MS and yes they’re not supposed to, but let’s not pretend like people don’t see that and maybe start to worry. “Can he do the job? Will he be able to do the job?” At the same time let’s not pretend like principals, assistant principals or instructional coaches aren’t human and don’t have biases. If you want to pretend that because we’re in education somehow, someway we’re not human and somehow, someway because we are teachers, we don’t think disparaging about certain things, or others don’t. This isn’t the pedagogy part of our exams. This isn’t the perfect world. The world is full of bias and people looking out for themselves. I just want to think maybe that isn’t true, but I feel like maybe it didn’t impact showing up struggling to walk with two crutches.

So I’ve been struggling with an autoimmune disease for the last two years, multiple sclerosis, unfortunately, I had some issues at work in regards to my conduct towards students. Nothing egregious, just not being the nicest. My principal was going to recommend me for non-renewal. I guess what didn’t help was that I had filed a grievance against my assistant principal for her final comments on the growth plan. I was put on a growth plan, which yes I made mistakes on it as well, but I did try and do everything that they asked me to do. Through my union I resigned in lieu of non-renewal and I got a pretty decent resignation agreement. The only thing that sucks is I can no longer ever apply to the district. My lawyer fought tooth and nail for a positive referral given all I did for the school. All I got was a very neutral referral and I just want to say that when schools have called my principal or they’ve called HR, I feel that the way they’re answering certain questions isn’t accordance with the agreement. I can’t prove it, but I feel that they’re saying it but in a very read between the lines type way. I think I’m getting screwed over because I had two interviews. I didn’t get them. You know what maybe I just did not interview correctly or properly maybe my interview was terrible. Maybe there was a better candidate, but I do feel that no one else has called no one else has set up interviews so I don’t know.

I respect the fuck out of the AISD Sup. He is overseeing a financially clusterfuck of a district, something he had a lot to do with, and when the going gets tough and he “steps down,” he’ll make a nice chunk of dough. Pretty good for a cuh like me. Fuck the kids as long as his severance is paid.