now what do I do?

I live in the USA.

This was my first year teaching. I spent 2 years as an IA and after my first I wanted to purse teaching, so in my second year of being an IA I started to get my Masters in education. I am halfway through my masters degree and have my provisional license in FAC's, but now I am unsure I want to even bother finishing up my degree and continue in education.

To explain, the job I have I took because I was desperate and so was the principal. It is not a FAC's position, and instead is ECE. However, I knew I could do it because of my background. Starting off things were really funky. They threw me in an off campus classroom with no support and told me I was not allowed to make peer relationships with the other teachers at the off campus location because the "program wasn't ready to make those connections yet". I was left to drown, but I did my best to swim instead of sink. I got started on the curriculum before I was hit with another slap, I had to teach something else before I could do the curriculum. Okay sure, roll with the punches. THEN after I finished up that, they told me that I had 9 weeks to teach a whole school years curriculum (wtf right?). But I said, I'd do my best and got started. This is when I should mention I was due to have a baby in December- which they were told ahead of time- and the stress ended up being so bad I was put on medical leave due to high blood pressure. I was assured my lesson plans would be heeded because they had found a competent sub. That was obviously a lie. I just returned at the beginning of March and just this past Monday I was served a "non-renewal". I spent a lot of time feeling like they were trying to push me out even though I was trying my hardest to teach what they wanted and how they wanted. Any advocating for my students or myself was met with a brick wall, but I chugged on.

Now I am dreading the call from HR that will tell me my contract is being revised to end at the last day of school (I am a 12 month employee)-can they even do that?- and I'm not sure I want to even bother trying to find another teaching position as I feel like that non-renewal is going to be a permanent stain on my teaching career.

Is there life after non-renewal? Should I bother trying? What options are there really for teachers that leave teaching that still make money someone can survive off of?

TL:DR: I bent over backward for this school and they slapped me with a non-renewal. What can I do now?

Submitted March 31, 2022 at 05:51AM by Long_Piglet_5313 https://ift.tt/7NHaEBx