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I worked as a teaching assistant in an elementary school while waiting for a full-time teaching position. Whenever openings arose, they hired student
I worked as an assistant for three years and saw all kinds of people coming in. I wasn't being hired as a full-time teacher. I got disgusted after the third year and quit. I left the district altogether to long-term sub in another district, thinking my chances would be better there. At the school where I worked as an assistant, another certified teacher worked for SIX YEARS as an assistant before they finally hired her. She, too, couldn't seem to shake the image of lowly assistant. What made it worse was that they just kept telling her that she wasn't good enough to be a teacher. Hello???? We are talking about a six year veteran who was turned down in favor of a "better" student teacher with no experience??????? I went to work in another district following my three year stint as an assistant. The principal was a dream to work with, but he was easily swayed by politics. He allowed the faculty to hire the teachers. I believe that if the power rested upon him, I would have received a job right away. We really clicked. But I saw a teacher's daughter get hired (again!), a student teacher, then another student teacher and another and wondered just how many more years I would wait until they ran out of daughters and student teachers. I subbed there for six years like that and quit to move to another state where I was offered a teaching position. I know it's hard, but try not to think of it personally. There's often a lot of politics going on that even your principal can't control.
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