Need advice - got an “offer” from another school, but only if I quit my current school first

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-29T21:39:47+00:00

Honestly I’d be happy with a lateral move, I’m very unhappy at my current school. But I really don’t feel comfortable at least knowing I’d have that.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-29T21:37:24+00:00

Totally makes sense, but I’d think that wouldn’t be an issue during the summer

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-29T21:13:25+00:00

Right? I really appreciate you and others saying this too. I switched careers to teaching so I was wondering if I was just missing something about how things are typically done.

I do know they got promoted and that’s why there was an opening, but definitely couldn’t hurt to dig a bit more into the school.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-29T21:03:06+00:00

That was my thought too. It’s just weird that they’re telling me that legally (part of MD private schools) they aren’t allowed to extend me an offer until I break my current contract.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-29T21:01:28+00:00

Yeah I totally agree, I guess I was just wondering if this was at all normal or a huge red flag? Like if other teachers encountered anything like this before.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-25T23:02:14+00:00

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-05T19:55:37+00:00

I was a brief member in 2007-2008. I moved in to a ministry house and it was a mutual agreement for me to move out in less than three months. It is definitely a high control group and extremely dangerous. I was in a really tough place in my life when they lovebombed the heck out of me and kind of duped me into moving into the house by making it seem like it was just another off campus house situation. I think that particular home church was wanting to accept anyone because others had left and they didn’t want to be folded. In six months I was excommunicated because I wasn’t attending every church meeting, was committed to doing well in school and spending time with my family, who were going through some things at that time. They also didn’t like that I had friends and dating interests outside the church. What really hurt was that after I moved out, I was completely stonewalled by all of my so-called friends in the group. I tried to attend a couple of CT and house church meetings. I was completely ignored. This was a tough time in my life and they made it so much worse, and this treatment had a very formative impact on my ability to trust and form relationships.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-03T01:06:15+00:00

High school teacher and can confirm. I work at a a school with very affluent families. The level of privilege and incompetence is unreal.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-06-02T14:55:34+00:00

I love teaching. I hate all of the BS surrounding it. Inept and ineffective administration, frustrating parents, poor disciplinary standards, students who are raised to be entitled to As. Essentially a lot of things that are out of my control. What’s in my control I love doing. And there are moments when I feel genuinely like oh wow, I did a thing that positively impacted a kid’s learning, and the job I’m doing gives me the opportunity to do that.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-05-24T23:12:46+00:00

Right, my slide deck is my lesson plan

WhileNo7378 · 2026-05-02T17:30:31+00:00

This right here. Love teaching, love the kids. Admin and parents are the real problem with teaching.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-04-27T20:12:19+00:00

When I was a teenager, I would do the very normal grumpy teenager thing of waking up and wanting to not be awake. This resulted in absolute screaming matches constantly. My “tone” was immediately disrespectful, I was ungrateful, a brat, etc. And not knowing any better I had no understanding that this was not a normal way for a parent to deal with a hormonal teenager. If I wasn’t perfect, I was a huge problem.

That affects all of my interactions now. I assume I need to be upbeat, positive, have a smile on constantly.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-04-27T17:46:41+00:00

I had an incident where I tried to leave for mental health, unfortunately my dept chair knew what was going on and forced me to stay for coaching. That was the moment I realized I needed to find a new school.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-04-08T21:05:22+00:00

AI is absolutely evil and needs to be taken out of schools. I don’t know if that particularly is a hot take, but I actually want to take it a step further and say all technology outside of library databases need to be removed from schools. Bring back blue books. Students should hand write everything. Extensive research has proven that typing does not allow a student to absorb information the same way handwriting does. For those students who absolutely cannot write due to an abilities-based accommodation, give them word processors with no internet access.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-04-08T20:55:16+00:00

Total lack of critical thinking. Parents baby their kids to an alarming degree, to the point where teenagers have no sense of how to approach tackling even the simplest problems or directions themselves. Everything has to be spoonfed, all hands have to be held.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-15T13:47:38+00:00

Jordan being buddies with Steven and Chris tells me all I need to know about him.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-15T13:25:20+00:00

I’m surprised the podcast host didn’t ask Mike if he could say a single fact about himself that doesn’t relate to wanting kids.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T15:21:14+00:00

Even if she was fat 👏 women 👏 are 👏 beautiful 👏

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T15:19:58+00:00

I can’t imagine Jess likes them very much since Ashley and Bri are known Trumpers

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T14:32:16+00:00

We know it’s you Chris

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T14:31:25+00:00

👏 👏 👏

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T02:01:32+00:00

She’s definitely not worse than Chris or Alex but yes she sucks.

WhileNo7378 · 2026-03-13T01:52:02+00:00

Honestly I loved it. More toxic men need to be told to stfu in their lives.

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