The search continues...

There she sits.  Feeling a bit deflated, quite tired, and wondering why am I doing this?  Spending twenty minutes applying for one teaching job.  Filling out the applications, answering the questions, the list goes on and is ever-changing.  Knowing she is a really good teacher and any district would be lucky to have her.  She is hard working, caring and gives so much of herself to every student and their families.  She is the teacher you want your child to have.  She will come early, stay late, give up her lunch and prep hours if lucky enough to have them.  All in an effort to better provide your child with the skills they need to be successful. 

Why does she do this?  No, it is not for the summers off or the long Christmas and Easter vacations.  To be honest these times off are used to take her own classes to better herself in order to be a better teacher for your child.  These "vacations" are often used to recharge the inner battery, prepare for the next years students, and learn new curriculum. 

So, here she sits typing this and wondering, " Why can I not find a job!"  She is not expecting one to be handed to her.  She will fight to get it and to keep it.  She just wants the chance to show you how amazing...yes AMAZING she is. 

 Having the ability to get a non-verbal child to communicate, a shy student to smile in front of class, a student who "sees things" be accepted, a student who sees backwards letters learn to read, a parent who is left with 5 kids and no job or money be successful, and to maintain an incredibly happy home-life for herself deserves a chance to be a model to our future leaders. 

This being said.  I am done for the day filling out twenty-minute applications to only have them sent back automatically with an e-mail stating the position is filled.  If it is filled why did you not take the posting off the site?  Why did you allow me to waste twenty-minutes of my precious life?  Why? Why? WHY?

Tomorrow is another day!  I will fill out more applications that will be returned with a very similar e-mail.  They cycle will repeat again the next day, and the next, and the next.  Until She finds a job in which she can make yet another difference in a life.  Because she...I know this is what I am meant to do.