If you had posted an application with your local ISD...
If you had known for a long time that your financial situation might demand full-time employment...
If you were one of few applicants who was 'certified' to fill one of two openings in your district...
If all of these things were true of you and your situation...
Then,
If a certain principal showed up at your school because (as a twist of fate) you have been teaching his son at summer school and have gotten along famously... That certain principal is ready to interview you for his opening and offers to pull your application and get started on it right away.
Would you then look at him and say, "I didn't apply for your opening. I'm honestly not interested.?"
No. I didn't think you would. You're probably not an idiot.
But sometimes the truth is hard. That truth was hard for that moment, but perhaps it spared me a very hard school year. If I had gotten in the way of things and taken a position that wasn't right for my family or myself, who knows what could have happened.
I feel a great amount of peace that when it happens, my whole family will be 'on board.'
I want to teach. No, I want to succeed in teaching. I want to make a career out of it.
My definition of a career does not begin with a full out belly flop as a middle school orchestra teacher.
I don't even think I could tell you 4 things about teaching orchestra.
So I'm an idiot. An idiot with no regrets.
4 comments:
That would be a tough assignment-glad you made that decision.
You're not an idiot. You're honest. Hold out for what you really want.
U go "idiot"! lol (I mean that in a very encouraging way!)
yes, you're absolutely right. your whole family will be on board and you will have peace about it! It's hard to do the right thing for your family sometimes... I'm proud of ya! ;)
Isa 49:11 I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up.
Ang- If God has called you to be a teacher, He will open the doors where there are none and make a path for you to walk on.
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