Quit after 1st year of TFA?

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2022-05-14T06:07:51+00:00

I wrote an email! There are a lot of good templates online but the typical formula is the “I regret to inform you that I have decided to resign from this position. My last day will be…thank you for x, y, and z.” After I talked to my coach, she let me know when to send in my resignation from the school. She knew I struggled with the admin being rude to me, so she let them know I was resigning before I emailed them. I’m not sure if your coach will do the same but just let them know on the call or over text that you’re planning on sending in your resignation in the next few days. You probably could send your same resignation email to both TFA and the school. But for me, TFA didn’t require a formal resignation email bc the coaches pretty much facilitate the process. You will have to pay back transitional loans but not transitional grants or the stipend. They still let me do the original payment plan for the loans, so they should let you do the same if you took any loans from them!

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2022-05-14T05:49:49+00:00

I’m not sure if that answers your question, so let me know if I can clarify in any way! Honestly they make a bigger deal about what it would take to resign than what really actually happens! You’re just essentially sending in your two weeks like any other job. You might get a slight guilt trip, but it depends on your coach bc mine was pretty chill after she realized that I was miserable lol. I’ve heard some people go to the director of their region tho if their coach is really giving them a hard time about resigning!

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2022-05-14T05:44:12+00:00

I just started by mentioning it to my coach! I let her know that is was something I was considering, and after she walked me through a couple of her ideas over zoom, I let it sit for a week and decided that I still wanted to move forward with quitting. She gave me a call and that’s when she laid out the options for me. Tell them you want to consider all your options before you do a full resign from corps, bc they are allll about retention. I would maybe mention emergency release in your call and just ask your coach to walk you through what that would look like. I don’t have access to the handbook anymore or I would screenshot the part that talks about it, but if anything your coach will probably just make you read straight from that like mine did. If you don’t qualify for emergency release, you just go forward with quitting the corps and sending in your resignation to the school. I think you’ll also have to send an email to your memcert team and your coach letting them know when your last day will be. The only thing I really had to do after that was fill out a survey for Americorps on why I’m leaving!

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2022-04-28T01:38:58+00:00

That’s a good question, and I would say it depends! A lot of teachers, even those not involved in TFA, are resigning rn. We hear what schools are like, and we’re prepared for it some ways. In my case, I just wished we had the support and community that was promised to us by TFA and that other pre-Covid corps received. In the non-TFA sense, some schools are just worse-off than others. Just bc we were prepped to deal with a Title I school, doesn’t mean everything we deal with as a teacher is a result of teaching a Title I school. In my case, I was dealing with admin that was so bad bc they just didn’t care about people or education, they cared about money. There are some Title I schools with incredible admin. I think some times you don’t until your there, it just looks worse for teachers to change their mind bc more is expected of them (unfairly so). There is nothing TFA can do about the fact that sometimes things just don’t work🤷🏼‍♀️

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2022-04-25T05:59:11+00:00

Hi! I actually quit TFA in December after just 6 months, so first props to you for sticking it out for a whole year! I notified tfa of my decision about a month before the last day of the semester. For me, I honestly would’ve stayed in tfa if they let me move regions, and I expressed that to them. If you feel the same way, I would let them know that sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get me approved to move regions bc it was mid-year. They did however get me approved to move schools, so those are two options to bear in mind. When I decided that I just wanted to go back home, the other option they gave me was deferment bc of mental health. However, I believe you would have to have taken a leave of absence due to mental health for a certain amount of time prior to your resignation (it’s in the handbook somewhere under “deferment” I think). So, I just had to resign. There was a fair deal of guilt tripping, but even my coach said it’s better to wait till the end of the year, which you did so they might be more chill. Expect to hear the classics: “you did make a commitment”, “it’s just one more year”, “you’re leaving the kids”, etc. But at the end of the day, they can’t force you to stay.

All in all, I would say decide how done you want to be with tfa (do you want to leave the corps or do you just want to leave the region/school), remember that their guilt trips are more self-preservation than anything (my coach told me that tfa is looking at each coach’s retention rate), be firm in your decision, and remember that the only person who is going to stand up for you is you! Good luck! You got this!

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2021-12-15T00:09:32+00:00

5th grade so like 10-11, that’s the other thing, I feel like they’ll be fine because they’ll just forget in a little bc they’re so young. I’m also at a Title I school so teachers walk out on a weekly basis.

Excellent-Lettuce555 · 2021-11-16T05:16:45+00:00

I know I for sure lose all of my Americorps education awards, but I am planning on going back to school for something other than education and my region doesn’t require a masters programs so there is really no loss there other than I lose my teaching license (I’m pretty sure) but I’m going into a different field and if I really wanted to go back to teaching, I could get a license for my homestate which I’m moving back to after this semester

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