I’m a high school teacher at a charter school in California so I make a pretty decent salary. I currently make $75k but I recently missed an $8k raise on a performance evaluation that is genuinely not any indication of how I am as a teacher. For example, when I took over teaching the AP course 4 years ago, I increased the pass rate by over 500% but that was not considered as a contributing factor in my performance. I even won Teacher of the Year last year but that also was not considered as a contributing factor in my performance. Even as is, I only missed the $8k raise by .09! To make matters worse, the reason why I missed the raise were factors beyond my control (scores on tests that I do not teach). My principal agreed the evaluation was bullshit and even fought for my raise but was denied. As you can imagine, I’m pretty angry about it because there are even people who have been teaching for only two years who fell into the high pay category - that’s literally the ridiculousness of this evaluation.
My issue - I’m not sure what to do.
Financially, I will make more at this school than I likely would anywhere else. In the long run, for my career, I don’t really plan on spending too much longer here, but if I got the $8k raise I definitely would put in at minimum another two years. I have a meeting with my principal about this on Monday and I’m not sure what I should do about signing next year’s teacher agreement. My principal agrees I’m one of the best teachers at the school so I’d like to try to negotiate, though I’m not sure if he’ll budge. If he doesn’t, should I make efforts to look for another job even though it’d be a pay cut, all because I feel angry about this evaluation; or, should I just suck it up and deal with another year of this school just for the money? I am the breadwinner in my family, we need the money.
Thank you for the help!
Submitted March 21, 2019 at 02:41AM by BugaliciousDef https://ift.tt/2FhISAv
