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Memphis City Schools
Just Another Nervous Breakdown!

How MANY fine teachers must be hurt?

 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 6:35 AM
> To:
teach4kids@edethics.org
> Subject: Please post anonymously
>
>
> Thank you for your site. I recently left teaching in the Memphis City
> Schools after the reverse racism, lack of administrative support and
> restrictive curriculum led me to a nervous breakdown. It took three
> months of intensive treatment before I was able to see that the problem
> wasn't me, it was the school. I'm now applying for jobs with rural
> schools, and am very picky in my questioning.
>
> BTW-this is the district with the "Superintendent of the Year"-who is
> now resigning in April in part because of a scandal where a principal
> was sexually harassing his teachers-and was reassigned to teach high
> school P.E.! Parents objected, which blocked that move, and the
> superintendent, who previously was the golden girl in the eyes of the
> non-teaching community, suddenly felt a need to go elsewhere.
>
>

 

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