Tom <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <sorry for cross posting, but this is an emergency situation>
>
> My sister is a kindergarten teacher under a yearly "term contract"
> in the Austin Texas public school system. She has been teaching there
> for 20 years, and is 3 years away from a full pension.
>
> Fairly or unfairly (because of performance evaluations) she is
> being asked to decide by Friday to, either:
>
> o resign:
>
> she would be given a letter of recommendation
>
> she would then complete this years teaching through June
>
> she could then legally say that the school did not terminate her
contract
>
> she would be paid through the end of her contract (this august)
>
> Please help us with is UNKNOWN:
>
> Would she be able to collect unemployment after August in this
> case where she resigns?
My understanding is no, if you resign from a job you cannot collect
unemployment insurance. Nor can you collect if you get fired for due
cause.
> o appeal:
>
> her principal indicates that they would formally *cancel* her
contract
>
> she would have to present her case before the board my March 22
>
> she may or may not be able to complete her teaching term through
> June, and she may or may not be paid through August (the end of
> her contract). She is optimistic on both though.
>
> The "smoking gun" that seems to have precipated this action was that she
> was not keeping detailed records (other than attendence) in her
> grade book. Two of four of the other kindergarten teachers in her
> school were also "not keeping detailed records" in their gradebooks.
Tom, my wife is a teacher. I won't lecture you other than to say your
sister should have been following the rules. I know that some of the
paperwork rules are petty, because my wife complains about them
frequently. Still, that's no excuse, and it sounds to me like the
school has just cause. Parents need to know more information about
their kiddos than just attendance!
My advice to your sister, and you should take it with a grain of salt,
is resign. With 20 years experience and a letter of recommendation,
she should be able to land another teaching job in an ISD in the
Austin area. If she fights it she'll get a bad reputation within the
Austin ISD that will haunt her future career, and even if she wins
they'll make her life miserable. Fortunately, teaching is a very
"****table" profession, much like nursing or being an electrician. She
can easily go elsewhere, and still collect the pension benefits she is
due for the 20 years she put in.
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