School's Out For Summer
Jun. 7th, 2019 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaA week ago Friday was the last day of school for students. Teachers had to come back on Monday for our last day, which except for one student coming back to take a retake and not arriving on time, was relatively uneventful.
We are trying to fill a position in the mathematics department, which has meant sitting through several rounds of interviews. The first candidate we all liked got bribed by her current administration to stay at her current campus, which was profoundly disappointing. The next couple were not particularly interesting, although one of them was a young lady fresh out of college who seemed like we could probably train her into the correct habits for our campus and who would probably get along well with our students; she's sort of our backup option at this point.
We interviewed a dude on Monday who we think would be a great addition to our campus - his resume is great and his interview went very well. He doesn't have a ton of experience, but what he does have is relevant to the specific job we'd be hiring him for (a mix of Algebra 2 and Geometry). The hitch is that he's currently here on a student visa; the district would have to sponsor him for a work visa, which they're willing to do, but the legal costs come out of the school's individual budget, not the district's legal budget. We've run very tight these past couple of years, and our principal is leery of committing our campus to legal fees in future years in case we have similarly tight budgets. Just in case anyone wasn't already aware that US immigration policy is bad for education, here you go.
(Update as I was writing this: apparently the legal department was able to mollify our principal's concerns slightly and we are offering this dude the job. I really hope he accepts & the hiring process doesn't have any further hiccups, because not having this position filled has been stressful.)
We are trying to fill a position in the mathematics department, which has meant sitting through several rounds of interviews. The first candidate we all liked got bribed by her current administration to stay at her current campus, which was profoundly disappointing. The next couple were not particularly interesting, although one of them was a young lady fresh out of college who seemed like we could probably train her into the correct habits for our campus and who would probably get along well with our students; she's sort of our backup option at this point.
We interviewed a dude on Monday who we think would be a great addition to our campus - his resume is great and his interview went very well. He doesn't have a ton of experience, but what he does have is relevant to the specific job we'd be hiring him for (a mix of Algebra 2 and Geometry). The hitch is that he's currently here on a student visa; the district would have to sponsor him for a work visa, which they're willing to do, but the legal costs come out of the school's individual budget, not the district's legal budget. We've run very tight these past couple of years, and our principal is leery of committing our campus to legal fees in future years in case we have similarly tight budgets. Just in case anyone wasn't already aware that US immigration policy is bad for education, here you go.
(Update as I was writing this: apparently the legal department was able to mollify our principal's concerns slightly and we are offering this dude the job. I really hope he accepts & the hiring process doesn't have any further hiccups, because not having this position filled has been stressful.)
