u/BlueBirdie0

I could really use some advice. I apologize for the length.

I was hired as an English teacher in California. The job offer letter that was provided for my intern credential states that it is for an English position, and the listing on EdJoin also lists that it is for an English position.

There was optional training about a week before required orientation meetings for new teachers in the district and for my particular school. Unfortunately, I had to miss this optional training due to my previous job. I now believe this was a massive mistake, as apparently the two new English teachers found out their courses at that time.

I was told on a Friday—with school beginning on a Wednesday—that I must teach an advanced drama and an intermediate drama class in addition to three English classes.

I have zero experience with drama (no classes in high school or college, no knowledge of lights or set design, nothing). I was told to use AI and they would hire another person to direct the play. I tried to politely object and say I was not at all qualified to do so, but was told that all you need is an English credential to teach drama in California.

Well, there was an issue with the MOU being expired between my school and my new job, so I am in contact with the credential analyst at my university. It is being sorted out so that I can officially obtain my intern credential, but I am currently working on my substitute permit. He told me that in California, I cannot teach drama with an intern English credential as of 2022.

I have a meeting on Monday with one of the admins at the school. I heavily suspect they will try to strong-arm me into directing a play. This is because after I wrote an email asking when the new director would be hired (i.e., a sort of co-teacher), the VP sent me an email saying that it would have to be approved. This is obviously completely at odds with what they told me last week (that they would hire someone to direct the play).

An experienced teacher believes I should contact the district office and the union. The union feels nuclear. However, this teacher implied if I refuse to direct the play, they will fire me or cut me down to .60.

I feel like I am stuck in a no-win situation. If I let them strong-arm me into trying to direct a play, I undoubtedly will fail at directing said play because of my lack of experience…which would then lead to me possibly being fired. If I refuse to direct the play, then I am likely going to get cut down to part-time or possibly fired.

I am thinking of going to the meeting on Monday with printed out copies of my job offer letter and the job listing (which stated it was for an English position).

Lastly, the students were under the impression I was the drama club sponsor. I never agreed to do this. Preparing for the play would require a lot of unpaid hours of work (there was zero mention of additional stipends), and my Tuesday lunch break. I am already a bit overwhelmed as I have very little help adjusting to the English classes (no mentor teacher, etc.).

Do you think I should play hardball, show my job letter & job application for the English position, and simply refuse to keep teaching this class if they do not hire a director within the next two weeks?

Is this normal to try and force an English teacher with zero experience to teach and direct a play for an advanced drama class?

*Also, I have not been told that I could receive stipend for off duty hours and running the club (which I wasn't even told that I was expected to do). From what I understand, California requires that I be offered a stipend to do this....and I should have added the first play is scheduled for late October lol

I could really use some advice. I apologize for the length.

I was hired as an English teacher in California. The job offer letter that was provided for my intern credential states that it is for an English position, and the listing on EdJoin also lists that it is for an English position.

There was optional training about a week before required orientation meetings for new teachers in the district and for my particular school. Unfortunately, I had to miss this optional training due to my previous job. I now believe this was a massive mistake, as apparently the two new English teachers found out their courses at that time.

I was told on a Friday—with school beginning on a Wednesday—that I must teach an advanced drama and an intermediate drama class in addition to three English classes.

I have zero experience with drama (no classes in high school or college, no knowledge of lights or set design, nothing). I was told to use AI and they would hire another person to direct the play. I tried to politely object and say I was not at all qualified to do so, but was told that all you need is an English credential to teach drama in California.

Well, there was an issue with the MOU being expired between my school and my new job, so I am in contact with the credential analyst at my university. It is being sorted out so that I can officially obtain my intern credential, but I am currently working on my substitute permit. He told me that in California, I cannot teach drama with an intern English credential as of 2022.

I have a meeting on Monday with one of the admins at the school. I heavily suspect they will try to strong-arm me into directing a play. This is because after I wrote an email asking when the new director would be hired (i.e., a sort of co-teacher), the VP sent me an email saying that it would have to be approved. This is obviously completely at odds with what they told me last week (that they would hire someone to direct the play).

An experienced teacher believes I should contact the district office and the union. The union feels nuclear. However, this teacher implied if I refuse to direct the play, they will fire me or cut me down to .60.

I feel like I am stuck in a no-win situation. If I let them strong-arm me into trying to direct a play, I undoubtedly will fail at directing said play because of my lack of experience…which would then lead to me possibly being fired. If I refuse to direct the play, then I am likely going to get cut down to part-time or possibly fired.

I am thinking of going to the meeting on Monday with printed out copies of my job offer letter and the job listing (which stated it was for an English position).

Lastly, the students were under the impression I was the drama club sponsor. I never agreed to do this. Preparing for the play would require a lot of unpaid hours of work (there was zero mention of additional stipends), and my Tuesday lunch break. I am already a bit overwhelmed as I have very little help adjusting to the English classes (no mentor teacher, etc.).

Do you think I should play hardball, show my job letter & job application for the English position, and simply refuse to keep teaching this class if they do not hire a director within the next two weeks?

Is this normal to try and force an English teacher with zero experience to teach and direct a play for an advanced drama class?

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I have been a fan since I was as child. However, after hearing the details of the play, I feel like I'm going to kind of check out of the main story in regards to Jon and Dany (who is one of my favorites). I'll still hope GRMM writes it so I can find out about Arya, Sansa, Stannis, Jaime, Brienne, etc. and I look forward the Dunk and Egg.

Does anyone feel the same way?

Also, am I the only one disturbed by how the women are portrayed?

Rhaella is crazy, and brags about how she draws blood from Aerys and scares him. The concept of mutual abuse is a choice, esp. as they also say Viserys has to be protected from her.

Mad Dany is basically confirmed.

Lyanna decides the death of her brother and father are all some part of a divine plan. She doesn't appear to try and notify anyone that she's leaving with Rhaegar.

Elia is a political schemer into power, but then apparently she's perfectly fine in splitting power with a second wife and even writes pen pal letters to Lyanna??? If she cares about power, why would she be okay with a second wife from a powerful house instead of a mistress from a minor noble house.

Elia and Lyanna being happy sister wives and pen pals seems like some male fantasy bullshit as someone on twitter said.

Ashara's true love is Elia, but she decides to fuck and carry Brandon's baby to term.

Also, I may sound overly woke, but it is a "choice" on GRMM's part to make the only part of Westeros where people are often described as having dark skin sexually promiscuous and open to polygamy, unlike the rest of Westerosi who are described as basically white people.

Any fics where the KG & Ned, the KG alone, or even Lyanna & the KG try to place Jon Snow on the throne after the death of Elia, Rhaenys, and Aegon.....and fail?

I'm curious as to what everyone thinks. I am wondering if GRMM retconned or changed things after he first started writing when it comes to these arcs:

1. Aegon V is three generations removed from brother-sister incest. He arranges marriages for his children to other houses. It doesn't seem like he planned to marry his kids at ridiculously young ages like Alysanne and Jahaerys did to their kids-Shaera & Jahaerys are in their mid teens when they eloped, which means they were likely meant to marry their spouses when they were 17-which is more normal than poor Aemma Arryn being married off at like 10 and Daella at 15.

And yet, Aegon V, who doesn't seem to care about blood purity, who doesn't seem to endorse child marriages (at least by Westeros standards)....is fine with his 12 and 13 year old grandkids Aerys II & Rhaella marrying.

It seems wildly out of character with what was previously established, even with the wood witch. Even if he believed the prophecy, why not make Jahaera and Shaera wait to marry Aerys and Rhaella until they were older?

2. It's established that Dorne has ties with Essos. Doran is married to a woman from Essos, he has a friend in Pentos, Oberyn spends a lot of time in Essos and fathers a few of his daughters there, etc. There's a mention of at least one Martell ancestor (besides Doran) also being married to a man from Essos.

Why doesn't JonCon try and contact Oberyn when Oberyn is in Essos to help him with Young Griff/Aegon/FAegon? If something happens to JonCon, wouldn't he want Oberyn to be aware so someone else could "verify" Aegon's identity.

If Illyrio and Varys want FAegon to rule, why are they helping out Dany and Viserys? I've seen people say they think those two would have been seen as awful by Westeros by bringing over Dothraki, so that would pave the way for FAegon..but even then it seems odd.

3. If Rhaegar and Lyanna is meant to be a love story (ugh), why have "all smiles die" when he crowns her (implying Lyanna was unhappy) and Lyanna say "Robert won't keep to one bed" if she then has as love story with a married man with two kids.

This obviously is not retconning, as it is in the same story....but why are many of the lords so against Rhaenys (or Laenor) ruling when that's the way the rest of the realm works in terms of inheritance....but absolutely fine with Viserys unilaterally deciding his daughter inherits over his son (unheard of outside of Dorne), especially when said daughter has obvious bastards. Not to mention GRMM hits us over the head again and again with how bastards are treated in Westeros in the main story, but in F & B it's no biggie? And before someone says "they aren't bastards" GRMM himself has said they boys are bastards.