CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! !

What a nice holiday greeting for you now you can relax and enjoy Christmas.

Congratulations! You go girl!!!

Congratulations! What a wonderful early Christmas gift!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

YAY! Way to go!! I remember my 7th grade reading teacher...she was great. That was the year we all had parts and read Diary of Anne Frank. I was Anne and remember being embarrassed to read the word "constipated". Funny the things you remember!

Yayyy!
I knew you'd get it!
Congratulations!!

Best wishes for this being a big step to a permanent teaching job full time.

Congratulations!!

Ya-HOOO!!! Congratulations!!

Very, very good! You'll be terrific! Lots of work, lots of rewards.

Congratulations to you!!

Happy for you!

Donna (^_^)

An apple for the Teacher.

Congratulations!

Sue

You're so happy to hear this great news - and we're happy for you.

You'll have a great time with the 7th graders, I'm sure.

Pleased, also, to learn that you're been keeping up with your reading here ...

... one does want to keep in practice, doesn't one?

You won't be encouraging your charges to get a charge out of keeping up on their reading by coming here, I hope?

(If you do - please point out some of the errors from time to time, O.K.?)

ole joyful

You go, girl!

Glad to hear someone has snagged a job. It seems that all I heard this week was about someone loosing their job.

Your news is refreshing!

What a blessing - congratulations!!!

Good for you Stephanie, nice to hear positive news for a change!!

YEA

Vickey-MN

That is terrific!!!! Congrats!

What wonderful news, Stephanie. I'm so excited for you!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!!!!! Always room for more good
teachers.

Enjoy every minute.

That's great!

What a great piece of news this morning....

Congratulations Stephanie!!

Glad to hear it!!

Woo hoo! I just knew you'd get it. Very happy for you!

Congratulations! that's awesome!

i always wonder why the job forecasters say teaching is a field to get into, when here in central FL more than a 1000 teachers get laid off each semester in the grade schools and high schools. enrollment is down sooo far, all new school construction has been halted. the colleges are hiring few new teachers even thou enrollment is up 300% at Seminole Community & Valencia CC and UCF is cost cutting and eliminating low-enrollment degree programs.

glad you found something! ~ liz

Good for you.

Shirley

Wow! Congrats! Being chosen out of 200 people is amazing!

Congratulations. Hooraaaaaay!!!

I hope you feel special -- chosen over 200 other applicants!

My DH always notices mis-spellings. Last one was a TV report about teachers striking in a Chicago suburb; someone had posted on a door "DISRICT OFFICE CLOSED". I wonder if you could assign your student to 'collect' mis-spellings as a fun project?

One block from DS's former high school is a public announcement on a bridge: "LOW CLARENCE". They're everywhere!

We'll be looking forward to your tales from the front, teaching junior high kids!

bigfoot they were here recruiting teachers for nevada, in the spring (detroit area)

I'm happy for you!

Congratulations!

Good for you! Congratulations.

Here's the deal around here on teacher layoffs. Its a dirty little ploy done by the school authorties to manage the school budget and to circumvent the teacher's union work rules. Every spring, they lay off everyone except for few core tenured teachers and staff. That is done to deny those individuals tenure, thus they are not obligted to hire them back next fall. However, most of the laid off teachers do get job offers fot the next school term. This alloys the school adminstrators to pick who they want to keep next year and dismiss those they don't want without running afoul of union work rules. The new job offers do not always carry a raise from the year before. The adminstrators argue that their budgets and load for the fall term are not known at the close of the school year - Hah! Why do they try so hard to determine the next term's class size and demand pre-registration for the fall term? There is some merit to this argument in that the taxing bodies may not have decided the budget for the fall term by the close of the present school year. School Principals complain of getting caught in a budget trap if they don't use the 'lay-off' game as a hedge.

So who gets hurt? The struggling newly minted teacher?

The lay-off game distorts economic data and forcasting. It looks different in spring than in fall. The problem is, the laid-off teacher has no guarantee that he/she has a job next fall.

Thanks all. I'm just glad to have a job, and can't help but wonder if one plus in my favor is the fact that I'm cheap. I know others interviewed with up to 10 years experience and no doubt higher education. Yeah, I'm a bargain! Heck, they could hire two of me for the price of the teacher retiring! LOL But I'm happy to have the job, and it does put me in a better position to have a job next year than I was in a month ago. If there are openings in the district they will place those in my situation before hiring new. I just might not know anything until the day before school starts.

That's great news Stephanie!! Tell those kids by being good readers they'll never be lonely!! It's always fun to pick up a book and get lost in it!