My wife lost her job today

[criveraville]

I guess the budget crisis has hit close to home. I teach first grade and she teaches Kindergarten one hall over. It's her first year with the district and most new year teachers were let go today. She might have a job next year if she takes and passes a test to teach another subject area..

Life is not fair, but we are still blessed beyond what we deserve and we continue to be thankful for what we are given each day.

Cipriano

[gstoneberg]

I'm sorry to hear that.  Hopefully something better is out there for her.  Your positive attitude is refreshing.

George

[Michael C.]

Man I know how you feel, my wife is a reading specialist and this is her first year too. I think if she wasn't getting her masters she would never have been able to get the job she has. It's an experimental position at the school shes at, so who knows what will happen next year. It sounds like you have the right frame of mind though, just count your blessings and hopefully you will see another door open.

[Rick Wallace]

My daughter in law is a third grade teacher,she has been there 6 years and is tenured,the bad thing is when they do let teachers go,they put the extra load on everyone else. Its insane to cut education,what happens to those kids that dont get enough teaching? Sorry for the loss

[Autumnbear]

  I see so many good folks losing their jobs. I am so sorry to hear that. I got laid off 2 years ago and it just plain sucks! I got laid off 2 years ago and understand how frustrating it is and how powerless I felt. Tell her to hang in there and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers!--Josh

[HatchA]

your family will be in our thoughts and prayers!

Seconded!

I was made redundant just days before Christmas.  Though part of me is glad for the time off (and no longer facing a life sentence for inevitably ending my IDIOT of a former boss), there's another part of me that feels "lost" without the routine in my life any more. 

Sounds like your wife has a plan though, with the test for another subject area.  Fingers crossed for you both

[Pappy]

Sorry to hear that,hope things work out.
   Pappy

[Wolf Watcher]

I have personal knowledge of your feelings.  My granddaughter in Portland is a fifth year teacher and all the staff at that school are worried about being caught in the crunch.  I taught and coached for 15 years and if it wasn't for welding on pipelines in the summer we would have starved to death.  When I finally decided to weld full time I felt like I had wasted my education but it was for the best.  Tell your wife to apply for substitute teaching at several area schools and she will find that can be rewarding and a potential for a future position!  I missed the kids, especially on my wrestling teams, but I really was glad to get away from the administrators, school board, and radical parents.  A/Ho Joe

[criveraville]

Thank you guys.. It is a different world than our grandparents grew up in, but this is still the greatest nation on earth and we will all over come.. I am sorry to hear that many people out there are in a similiar situation, there is hope in tomorrow

[JW_Halverson]

Keep that positive attitude and remember to give her lots of extra in the next few weeks.  After the numbness wears off she'll need you more than ever.  You are her coach and her head cheerleader.  I'll be up here rooting for you guys, too.

[stickbender]

     Sorry to hear that.  I don't mean to add more misery, but I really don't see things getting any better, for quite a while.  In fact, I do believe things are going to get a lot worse.  You can't be in debt to China, be off the Gold Standard, and print money like you are selling monopoly sets, and not have it all crash down on you.  I do hope she gets rehired, and the substitute idea in the mean time is an excellent idea.  Good luck, and God bless.

                                                                             Wayne

[readfox]

Dear  Criveraville  !
I know that words can cured and kill but in this situation words are nothing !
Only action of herself and Your support and help will make miracle.
She must make all by  Her  own brains  and  her 11 number - ( by the  legs).
In country where I live   People after  40 let about 50 are becoming  nothing.
After colaps of the  State  We were not ready, that woman can be  though  out on the street because of the age, and if They are refused to sleep with boss.
But just now it is our terrible  realities.
If it is capital  of   the State where  I live  teacher  can survive, if it is province the  salary is  so awful  little, that one  teacher  must work for three salaries,  as one salary only for the  death.
I wish to Your  wife  remember, that She is young and Her life only begines.
She must cheere up and begine to find new job.
My  two  American  aquantances  were  fifty five,  and  97, both  died  two years ago  in one month.
One  was  happy  as She find herself in  work and hobby, the another  lost all besides of job, as Her husband was fantastic high American boss, but   losted hope.
She  had to work for Herself for Him and for the hopes  of  the two.
She was broken  by  absent of the hope,  as She could not change his motivation to the face's hope, unfortunatly.
I see that You did not lost hope, that You both overdone.
I wish both of You a good way.
Remember You are both Young.

[Mechslasher]

know how you feel.  i've been teaching 14 years and still worry a bit this time of year.  if they keep cutting the only ones that'll be left would be the administrators.  that will be sad and funny at the same time because the majority of them that i've worked with have already proven that they can't teach so they administrate.  i have a fellow who taught elementary pe for three years and he's trying to explain to me how to teach honors and cp biology.

[Marc St Louis]

It is very odd that teachers would be dismissed like that.  You would think that educating the young would take take precedence over most everything else since they are the future.

[gstoneberg]

You would think.  However, when it comes to political decisions, logic seldom matters.    oops, I typed the P-word.