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View submission: Have any of you ever gotten fired?
Got non-renewed at my first school. I was teaching high school in the hood. Had no idea how to control my class (some of them were gang members and were surprisingly some of the nice ones) and admin recognized that I wasn't hacking it and sent me my non-renewal by April.
Problem was I was in an alternate route program and if I couldn't get another year of teaching under my belt for next year, I wouldn't be able to get my license at all. My mentor was so upset on my behalf that she pulled her connections to get me an interview in her old district. Bless that woman. I've been teaching 8 years and wouldn't be where I am without her.
Comment by shejoinedthedarkweb at 09/03/2025 at 23:37 UTC
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Exact same thing happened to me but instead of being non renewed because my principal had me teaching ESL without a certification (absolute no no) she said I should look at elementary instead. Her incompetence helped me get a full scholarship for my first masters’. She got fired a year later after an internal investigation showed she was hiring and paying her relatives for positions that didn’t actually exist in the school and telling teachers to falsify other salary documentation to get more federal money.