I teach part time and had always been given the impression that I could increase my hours every year to to teach full time eventually. Anyone who has seen me post in the education section would know that I am passionate about state education and adore my school.
Our school is bancrupt though and we are laying off staff and I have been told that my hours cannot increase. I was counting on my hours increasing to help make our financial situation a bit easier, housework is a real issue at home and something dp and I fall out about as I am very career focussed and do not do my share if I am honest so an aupair was about to start, we cannot afford her if I am not going to get a pay rise soon. May sound minor and a tad spoilt of me but I do struggle to balance working in a job that is demanding and running a house and the aupair was going to relive a lot of tension in the house. THere are also a lot of jobs that need doing on the house and paying for those needs me to be earning more money which I was expecting to do next year,
There is a full time job going in a school not to faraway, but not as conveniently close as my present school, that offers me more chance of career development, job security and the full time pay packet.
But I love the school I teach at presently and I know I won't be replaced which will land my head of department in it and my students will be taught badly by non specialists, including two of my gcse classes. I teach in a very tough school where teachers come and go and it has taken my students a long time to trust me and the thought of telling them that I may be leaving breaks my heart. I am in tears at the thought of leaving and we can live on dp wage and my part time one but life wqould be so much easier if I was working full time. What would you do?
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twinsetandpearls · 02/03/2007 22:52
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