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Re: Priorities

From: Litesal (litesal)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 15:42:08 PDT

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    Dear Jennifer,

    I'm going to respond to parts of your letter, within your letter.

    > > -Between two schools, (700 students at one, 800 at the other).
    > > -On a cart at each school.
    > > -Teaching grades 1-5.
    > > -After school art club at each school.
    > > -About $2,000 annual budget at each school.
    > > -No planning or passing periods.
    > > -Anywhere from 30-42 students in each class.
    First of all, congratulations on deciding to get out of this one!

    > > jobs that are looking really closely at me, one has an incredible
    program
    > in
    > > place (and large shoes to fill), but I'm not convinced about the
    > > administrative support.

    Personally, if you're talking about elementary, I lean towards this one. If
    it's high school, however, I found administrative support to be more
    important, especially with discipline. If it's a good program already, and
    you have good supplies, space, class size, and schedule in place, you may
    not need the support of an administrator. Sure, it's nice to be respected,
    but, remember administrators change (meaning, you can earn their respect, or
    they move on and you get a new one!).

    The other has nothing in place, wants to build a
    > > great program, but lacks space, and class sizes are high. The plus to
    > this
    > > one is that administration will give me anything I want (short of space
    > > because it doesn't exist).

    In my opinion, space and class size are very important. I question their
    committment to "a great program," if they have no ideas for improving those.
    I'd love the opportunity to build a great program, but space, class size,
    equipment, budget, and an appropriate schedule would top my list for
    building that program.

    Good luck on your decision. Go with your instincts, I have found that when
    I felt comfortable with the people I interviewed with, I liked the job much
    better. In fact, for the job I have now, I was completely at ease during
    the interview (first time ever), and I still like the atmosphere after nine
    years.

    Just my opinion, Leah 

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