PokerBob gets screwed at work. What would you do?(tl;dr)

[CrazyEyez]

Bob, from all your responses it sounds hopeless. Your best bet is to own those sucky classes and meake them awesome. Won't be as fun for you, but the kids will benefit. And look for another job in the meantime, especially since you suspect TAP will be P in the near future.

[Sponger.]

PokerBob,

You seem incredibly passionate about teaching. I don't understand why you took a year off. That is all.

[PokerBob]

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PokerBob,

You seem incredibly passionate about teaching. I don't understand why you took a year off. That is all.

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just needed some time away. every job can get tedious after a while.

[PokerBob]

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In sales there is a tactic called the take away. I recommend you approach the BMOC at take something off the table unless a fairer solution is provided - meaning you. Explain that you are prepared to leave due to the hostile environment fostered by the new management, that you work for love of the students not for money (hence your 1 year leave). Its too late to find a replacement, I think you have a 40-55% chance of succeeding with my strategy.

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the problem here is that if i leave them high and dry now, i may be damagin my prospects for future employment as i am likely breaching my contract. i am not sure if i am willing to take that risk, at least not yet.

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Start looking for another district. Then evaluate your options.

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i have begun that process. i have also been allowing my hatchet to get really dull and rusty.

[I.Rowboat]

Bob,

As someone who used to be a HS teacher, I have a fair degree of understanding (and a lot of sympathy) for what you are up against in your present situation. It is extremely unfortunate that TNG was "promised" classes that you taught for years, and it is also unfortunate that he is being a prick about your suggestion to level the disparity in assignments.

My .02 cents, FWIW, would be to shop around at other schools in your district for a better situation. If you have the track record you posted, other schools in the district should be very eager to give you a position and a teaching schedule that allows you to teach the classes you're best at. In the school/district in which I taught, the good AP teachers were known throughout the district, and the parents of AP students would find ways to send their kids to the schools that had the most talented teachers. There was almost always room for such a personnel change, and I witnessed several in the five years I taught, typically caused by the sort of situation you've described.

It is in the district's interest to retain a teacher who is as well qualified as yourself, especially if your students have had the success you claim on their AP exams. If your school's administration is too short-sighted to see this, talk to the principal of another school in your district, and see if they have any interest in you bringing your proven teaching abilities and physics program to their school; you may be pleasantly suprised. Your current administration sounds like a bunch of douchebags, so I wouldn't hesitate to do this behind their backs.

You sound like a great teacher. I feel for you and hope you can find a satisfactory solution to this unpleasant situation.

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In sales there is a tactic called the take away. I recommend you approach the BMOC at take something off the table unless a fairer solution is provided - meaning you. Explain that you are prepared to leave due to the hostile environment fostered by the new management, that you work for love of the students not for money (hence your 1 year leave). Its too late to find a replacement, I think you have a 40-55% chance of succeeding with my strategy.

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the problem here is that if i leave them high and dry now, i may be damagin my prospects for future employment as i am likely breaching my contract. i am not sure if i am willing to take that risk, at least not yet.

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Its called a bluff Bob... you don't have to do it, but you have the ammunition of the prior year to prove that you are capable of doing it. Remember as the kid's say, you are the teacher who was on the World Poker Tour.

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[PokerBob]

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Ouch. What an unpleasant and/or weak-willed group of characters you have to deal with here.



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well, they are not all weak-willed.

i spoke to a friend today who spoke to Mr.X. Mr.X is one of the other science teachers (not affected by this). Mr. X went and spoke to TAP today and expressed his concerns at the way it seems I have been given the shaft. apparently he came away disappointed as TAP seemed indifferent to his concerns.

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You sound like a great teacher.

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Knowing Bob as well as I do (which is a little better than casually in travels as we end up at the same location often) I'd be willing to say that he reminds me a lot of my favorite teacher in grade school, a person who makes it fun to learn and easy to retain information. His students are very lucky to have him.

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[PokerBob]

i just received an email from TAP with next year's schedule. It has confirmed that I am screwed. my play?

[Meech]

Wow,

And we wonder why our schools churn out subpar kids.

(Nothin against you bob, you seem to genuinely care -- but you work with a bunch of friggin wackjobs)

Any of the student you taught still around? Rally? Protests?