Well wouldn't you know it, just as I thought - he changed the subject to pester me about my certification. I swear if I had known that it was going to cause so many problems going to college in one state and teaching in another, I would have stayed in-state. It's not worth it. Even though I have passed all the tests to teach in Kentucky, I can only get a Kentucky license if I teach there. And since I am teaching in Indiana, I have to get certified for here, and they require two different additional Praxis exams to get the paper work cleared. F my life. He says it has to be done my next month. And I don't even know if I have the money, nor the time to brush up on my math, to take the damn things. But it must be done. And the whole time I was in his office I was scratching away at the eczema on my fingers. Super.
Other than that, my principle seemed to take the news rather well. He said that back quite a few years ago, there were 3 or 4 teachers a year out on leave at the same time, so surely this means that we can manage just me, right? He said congratulations and that he was happy for me, and asked how much time I was planning on taking off. I asked him how much I got, and apparently the only time I actually get are the sick days I have accumulated over the past two years. Great. I've spent my first 2 years teaching being sick constantly. Although I was pretty bad and didn't always fill out the paper work for those days, so we'll see how many I've got. I'll start with 11 days for this school year, although something tells me I'm not going to get halfway through the school year without missing any time due to sickness and doctor's appointments.
Hopefully since I'm on A's insurance, I will be able to get some additional time. I really don't want to be docked pay because I'm out on maternity leave! Hopefully this issue will get cleared up soon.
One good thing I learned is that I won't have to have detailed lesson plans for the whole approximate 6 weeks I'll be gone. I'll have to do a detailed plan for the first week I'm out, and then that, just a rough guideline for my performance groups. Then the sub is responsible for the rest of the plans. That's a relief!
I stepped into my classroom before I left school today and it is a wreck! Totally not how I left it at the beginning of the summer! Whoever has been using my room needs to put everything back where they found it!
Also, I got a new (old) desk which is great, because my desk now only has three legs attached. Bad for me also though, because now I'll have to actually clean out the desk. Plus, I'll have to beg someone to move the desks for me since I can't do it myself.
So the first day of teacher inservice is this Wed. I knew that. But what I hadn't kept track of was when registration is going to be - yikes - this Sunday. So my classroom has to appear to be ready by this weekend. And the people working on the bathroom are going to be here all the rest of this week. How am I going to be 2 places at once? The primary teachers have their aids to help decorate their classrooms. Plus, they only have to decorate for one age group. Although I wouldn't want their jobs so I'll shut up.
I'm not ready for summer to be over, even if it has been rough!
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