Find sympathy elsewhere By SC

I am trying to be the last sympathetic hold-out here because I know what it feels like to have an idiotic principal who is overly critical and unsupportive. I also know what it is like to seek sympathy and empathy and instead be handed criticism. For these reasons, I try to be understanding of you. It must be very hurtful to get fired, especially when you expected to have a positive teaching experience. I hope you can move on and have a better experience, either teaching another grade or doing something else.

Personally, despite the principal's irritating comments, I tried to see it as my own responsibility to improve no matter what he said or noticed. I tried not to say things like, "Everything would be better if I taught in a nicer area/taught a different grade/had a different principal/had better teammates." This almost kept me from wanting to change to a lower grade, which I knew would be better due to the reduced class size. Although I did switch in the end and feel this was a good move, try to always remember that problems follow you and don't always disappear when you change situations. Wherever you go, there you are.