This is a first. I just finished applying for the job I'm already doing. I have been asking innumerable people innumerable questions trying to gain an understanding of the districts actions: specifically, the reducing of teaching personnel beyond the minimum required for the district to function (e.g., meet the needs of the present (and even more so, future) enrollment. I am by no means making light of the near-impossible dilemma facing the administration as the result of the financial decisions of the local and federal governments; however, is there (can anyone tell me?) a justifiable reason for laying off every probationary teacher only to turn around and spend the money/resources to rehire the indispensable ones? Is this (in terms I have heard utilized by experienced teachers) a C.Y.A. move?
Whatever the reason that the higher-ups feel the we-down-heres have no need of knowing; I hope that it is in the best interest, not of us the educators, nor of them the peddlers of politics, but of the center and aim of original public education: the students. Has anyone stopped to consider the legacy we are leaving for the generations who will inherit this land when we are dead and gone? Yes: LEGACY! No, I am not making a mountain out of a mole-hill. This will have ramifications both detrimental and far-reaching and the fault will be attributed to our account.
This is not, and never has been, about us. It is about them. We've had our time, our chance. This time, this moment is theirs. We have no right to take it from them.
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