u/ss3walkman

Hello, principals!

I am an aspiring first year teacher. I acknowledge that I may have made a mistake and would like to know the process after a recommendation for hire and if I’ll still get the job.

Full disclosure: I was student teaching. On the last day of school I wrote letters to students. I tracked down two students as they were leaving whom had left class early to pick up their sibling from another class and gave them their letters.

A teacher reported me for giving them letters. Why, I don’t know - I have my suspension, but I digress.

Anyway, she went to admin who didn’t have any concerns. She then went behind their backs to the district and they opened an investigation. It was unfounded and ended in my favor.

Recently, I interviewed for my first teaching position. I was selected and the principal called my references - principal, teaching mentor, teaching coach.

My coach called me telling me the conversation was great. She told me that she mentioned the investigation in her conversation with the principal. My coach is very supportive and has shared I’m the most teacher ready student she’s had, and raised hell about the investigation, so I’m not worried about what she said.

What I’m concerned about is that I don’t think I disclosed the investigation. Not because I was hiding it because it was unfounded, but because I was unsure I was supposed to since it happened during my student teaching - no one seemed to know if I was supposed to or not.

Despite that, the hiring principal didn’t care, even emailing me in excitement for having finally connected with one of my references. The principal also spoke to my former principal and it came up. She still pushed my recommendation for hire through to HR.

I’m excited and extremely grateful, but I’m also worried. I don’t know what the recommendation for hire includes and I’m concerned I won’t get approved because I didn’t disclose the investigation.

Would the principal have to disclose that in the recommendation for hire? Part of me feels that since she still wants me, maybe that means she doesn’t.

In summary:

I applied for the job and didn’t know if I should put the investigation from student teaching, so I put “no”.

I was selected for the job.

The hiring principal knows about the investigation and that it was unfounded, hearing it from my mentor, coach, and old principal.

The hiring principal pushed my recommendation for hire to HR because she understands and still wants me.

I’m worried that the hiring principal has to disclose knowledge of the investigation to HR they will be upset it’s not on my application and not hire me.

This is my first teaching job and I want to celebrate, but I’ve been really down. I haven’t even told anyone about my potential hire because I don’t want to let anyone down.

Any experience or thoughts on this would help.

Thank you.

I am in a very unique situation . I was a both a para and a student teacher. At the end of my student teaching I was reported by a coworker for a weird reason that I’m sure had racial and sex stigmas attached. You see I wrote letters to my ELA class like my professor told us to and with permission from my mentor teacher. Another teacher found one and reported to my principal “I don’t feel comfortable with him passing out letters to students” and when she didn’t get the response she wanted she told HR and claimed it were yellow boundaries behavior. HR opened up an investigation. Parents and students were interviewed and nothing came of it. I was absolved. However, since it’s an at-will state, I was terminated - still appealing and arbitration is coming. They basically said I’m a risk and it’s better to just to let me go now. Compassionate teaching??? Anyway.

I applied for a position and I don’t think the termination or investigation is on there. See I created the account and completed the application during the spring 2025, prior to the investigation which happened that fall and didn’t finish until January 2026.

Another thing is I was terminated for my act as a student teacher - which did affect me as a para.

Honestly, I’m not sure if I updated my account and disclosed the information. Typically when I apply, it’s a one click process because my application was already filled out. I know I’ve disclosed it in recent applications for new districts, even though I’m not sure if I should’ve.

I’ve been pulled to interview (in the district I previously had a profile with) and I don’t know what do I do?

It’s a unique situation. I know I was terminated as a para, but it was for a student teaching action. I don’t even know if I’m supposed to disclose that. Isnt student teaching supposed to be a learning process?

I want to be proactive and contact HR, but I don’t know if I should or if I should wait until after I interview. Would HR understand that I just forgot to update my profile, or how it’s a unique situation and I didn’t understand how to respond? I did call a few weeks ago for clarity but never got a response.

What do you think about it? What should I do?

Edit: As someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, it is very triggering and disheartening to hear how many people doubt that I’m doing exactly what I’m saying I am. I’ve worked hard to get to the mental space to actively pursue my weigh loss goals. I have spent many days in my room looking up at the ceiling, avoiding people and doing my best to ignore the hunger because I want better for myself. I decided to be vulnerable and lay it all on the line and ask for help, and I’ll I’m doing is being met with doubt and made to feel like a liar. I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t eat at restaurants. I don’t eat candy. I don’t include gravies. I eat bare minimum because I want to look and feel better. I came here because I thought this was a supportive group. Instead I’m spending all my time trying to prove myself to you. It’s discouraging. I won’t ask for help hear anymore.

Hey, all!

I’ve been eating at a deficit for the past month.

I did not weight myself prior to my lifestyle change, but last time I went to the doctor in February I was a whopping 372 pounds. I was laid off last September and I suffer from depression which led to a lot of binge eating.

Since then I’ve been very conscious of what I eat. At the beginning of this month I got real serious and started tracking everything.

I first weight myself a week ago - I was worried about being discouraged so I tried avoiding the scale. Last week I was 364 pounds. Problem is, I don’t know where I was prior, but I’ve been tracking food for a month.

Today I stepped on the scale and I was 364 pounds again.

I’m not expecting a change overnight. However, I expected something, especially with the weight to calories differential.

I usually eat the same daily. There’s minor changes for dinner or a snack, but it’s all relatively the same:

Breakfast - 1 egg (70 cals), 2 slices of sourdough toast (80 cals each = 160 cals), 4 slices of bacon (40 cals per slice). 390 calories.

Lunch - strawberry, banana, blueberry smoothie with 1 cup Minute Maid Zero (5 cals). 200 cals.

Dinner - usually is 2 cups of rice OR a pack of ramen (400 cals), broccoli (40 cals), and a protein - thinly sliced steak, a chicken breast, or a pork chop (200-400 calories). 850.

Snack - an apple or a small bag of Quaker crisps (80 cals)

That’s about 1520 calories.

I get up and do house and yard work so i can confidently say I burn 300 calories a day minimum.

That means my net calories are 1220.

I’m not 100% certain because I don’t totally get it, but someone my weight should require anywhere between 2800-3200 calories to maintain the weight.

Lastly, I haven’t been on top of my water. I only drink about 25oz of water per day consistently. Sometimes more, but 25oz is about average.

Am I doing this right? If not, what am I doing wrong? Why am I not losing weight?

Hi,

I just finished my first year of teaching and I think I want to do something else.

I have degrees in teaching (K-8) and ECE. Also, I have 1 year of teaching under my belt, but 9 years of experience as an instructional assistant and social emotional learning coordinator.

What jobs can I get where I leverage my degrees and experience?

Hello!

I am currently applying for my first teaching job, and I am concerned that I may have tanked my application.

Back when I was an instructional assistant, I was terminated for a policy violation - not by my admin. Since then, I've completed my student teaching and received my official teaching certificate a couple of weeks ago.

When first applying to jobs a couple of months ago, I originally disclosed the termination. Shortly after, I spoke to someone in the field, and they suggested that I don't disclose the termination because I'm now going for a teaching job. I went back to the applications and removed the termination.

It's still early and I haven't seen any external teaching positions posted from local districts yet, but I'm concerned that the change will torpedo my applications. I was approved for my certification in which the termination was disclosed, and I've gone back and updated my application with the certificate. I was approved by the state just 2 weeks ago, so they don't think the termination was an issue.

Did I screw up by going back and removing the termination from my applications? If so, how do I fix things?