I have an interview with a different school this week. I would be going to a school that is affluen

[greenbriar]

and always meets NCLB>

going back to a High School and all that it entails...homecoming, proms, graduation ect...
Which is really what I miss


I would be leaving 2,000 because of a title 1 school

I would be leaving issues of great poverty behind




I am going for the interview, but not sure about what I will do if offered the job.

[squawk7700]

1. I don't get your quandary. You obviously want or need the job...

otherwise why would you go to the interview?

[greenbriar]

2. I have a school my quandary is leaving struggling poverty students for

affluent students and an easier time


but then I would feel like I was abandoning my kids



also would lose about $2,000 a year but would NEVER have to worry about not making AYP or being 0 based.


There are pluses and minuses on each decision.



Put it this way, I would be going from

Motel 6 to the biggest 5 star hotel ever


yes it is that divergent in terms of economics

[squawk7700]

6. Hi, I didn't mean to critize, I just was wondering. It kind of looked like you had already decided

what you were going to do. :-)

So it seemed to me you were looking for affirmation...NOT that there is a thing wrong with that! :D

[MichiganVote]

8. You'd be surprised how many of those affluent kids are living in poverty

[MNDemNY]

3. Sometimes even the "High Horse" takes the wrong path.

[greenbriar]

4. I know

I am going to see what the job entails, and get details


don't know exactly what I will do yet

[MNDemNY]

5. Your own ambitions, comfort,and security are very valid considerations.

[LisaM]

7. If the current job is draining your emotions and energy

does it also affect commitment? I think at some point, if a job takes a lot out of you, you end up just phoning it in and so what's the point of sticking with a place where you're doing that? These are sad times in our schools. I think a lot of teachers feel beaten down. If you have a chance to go where you might experience joy in your job again, it may be that you have to take it - and it may re-charge you to go back to the more needy students after a couple of years.

Everything is about perspective.

[greenbriar]

9. that is a great way to look at it

we do feel beaten down badly

then we face being 0 based and wondering where we will be next year because of NCLB and the unreachable standards because of it...


sometimes we just have nothing left.

[LisaM]

10. It may be that going back to teach the more privileged

will change the way you see it, and give you the energy to return. Or maybe they've taken it all out of you. I don't know you, so I can't say, but if you're at a point where you're just going through the motions, I think a break would be in order. And - as happens to many people who give to the less fortunate - it may give you the perspective to enable you to return some day.