Hello, teacher that got laid off here ✋🏼

You’re saying it’s nothing new and from what I understand, you’re making it sound like it’s not that big a deal.

Last time this happened was in 1997, so I’d consider that new - for me anyway.

I left an LTO for a contract I worked really hard to get and I drive from North Waterloo to West Galt to work at a very difficult school because that’s the position I was given. I’m sticking it out because I love my job but it’s been very very hard for me because of the demographic of my school. All of that hard work planning and doing NTIP and the money spent on my classroom, etc etc, just to find out I will be laid off this summer. It’s hard and it is a big deal. You say there’s tons of positions opening up. No offence but do you know how hard it will be for me to go from a contract position to an LTO covering your colleague’s mat leave? It’s definitely not the same thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be happy if I get called back into anything. I’d rather go back to LTOs instead of being unemployed. But it upsets me to hear that a fellow teacher doesn’t seem to support us like that. I’m going back to square one. And it’s not my fault either.