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over contract. what's a girl to do?

We just finished the third week of school. I figured out that I am over contract by 8 contacts. But I'm already attached to most of my kids. The only ones I'm not attached to just showed up this week--yeah, there were 5 of them. oof! i'm not the worst of it. one la teacher has 44 students in a class and is over by 21 kids. the 7th and 8th grade are maxing out all over the place but overall our school is still under-enrolled b/c the 6th grade all over the district is extra small this year. i could just keep all my kids. that way there's no way they can give me more kids which will eliminate those middle/end of the year transfers of kids that got kicked out of other schools...however, due to PI we are already having issues about being over contract in other ways(stipends vs. per diem for trainings, etc) so I'm trying to support the union as well. I mean, I will never sell my kids out and I have space in my room for all the kids I do have and management-wise things are pretty good. the two kids that got sent to me 7th period after i had already informed admin i was over were a bit taken aback when i sent them to the office instead of allowing them in class. they weren't new; they had just gotten their schedules switched around so it wasn't a big deal.
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Published Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:43 PM by mz.w

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MysteryTeacher said:

I had 43 students in my 4th grade class last year.  We are a quickly growing district.  We didn't have the money to hire new teachers.  I also had 10 of the worst kids I have even had.  There were only 2 4th grade teachers.  So this year they hired 4.  We are all up to 30 already.

September 15, 2007 5:49 PM
 

MysteryTeacher said:

mz.w: In our district we do not have class limit sizes that stick for very long.  As soon as we are over mnumbers, they start complaining that there isn't enough money to hire new teachers.  This has been going on since I started here 20 years ago.  I am just used to it.  My first year I had 38 students, so what is the difference?  We don't have a strong union.  In fact, this is a right to work state and we have no union to speak of at all.  I don't belong to NEA because of political differences and they cost too much. Besides, they can't help me here. They are basically a place to go and gripe. We don't give the district to do anything.  They just do it.

September 17, 2007 9:12 AM

About mz.w

i teach 7th and 8th grade langauge arts and social studies. i'm going into year 3 of teaching social studies and year two of teaching language arts on my own. i have a single subject credential in social science. my goal is ditch language arts entirely. i love teaching! ah-ha moments are the best!!!