Unfortunate News

On Monday night after work, I got a call from my supervisor. It turns out that come August, I'm being moved to a new school. Which means that I lose my mountain school. The ALTs were all assuming that the BOE had made all of their placement changes in the spring, but apparently our new supervisor decided to make some adjustments.

I'm really upset to be losing my favorite school, and I honestly can't understand what the reason for the move is. If they were moving me so that one of the incoming ALTs could have the school, that would make sense. It's a good school for a new ALT to start with. But that's not what they're doing; they're replacing me with Nelson, who has been here the same length of time as I have. And they're moving me to another small mountain school, so it's not as if they've opened up a good position for any of the new ALTs by moving Nelson and I. All in all, I don't get the logic behind it, if there was any logic to begin with.

Next week will be my last visit to the junior high. I'll probably be a mess, but there's not much I can do about that. Today was most likely my last visit to the elementary school in that area, and I'm quite unhappy to lose those students as well. A lot of them seemed pretty attached to me, and I know I'll miss them quite a bit. While the school I'm being moved to is also a small school with very good students, I don't find that a lot of comfort when I have to say goodbye to all of my favorite students.

Anyhow, it's probably pretty clear that I'm not in a great mood this week. I know I'll get over it, but for the time being I don't particularly feel like being reasonable about it.