I got a very nice phone call from the principal with whom I interviewed last week. He had promised to make a decision pretty quickly and let me know personally, one way or the other, and he kept his promise. Unfortunately, I did not get the job, but he was complimentary and wished me the best of luck in my current job. I’m so disappointed. It would have been really nice working in a public school much closer to my home where I already knew a friend, and I hate to say it, but I’m quickly growing very unhappy with my current job. There is so much tension and stress. I’m also very uncomfortable with some of the things I see being asked of Linda. Whether they realize it or not, teachers are being cheated out of the hours they work. Linda is told to change the time sheets on a regular basis. The administrative office is monitoring our attendance and time clocks through the computer, and the second a class drops below the required student-to-teacher ratio, they’re on the phone demanding that we send a worker home, no matter how many hours the worker has been promised. I know someday those demands will be made of me, and I don’t know that I can live with it.