Blessings! Please pray for protection, strength, safety, encouragement, faith, peace, wisdom, discernment, and good health. I’m a first year sped teacher and I’m struggling; I feel unprepared, trapped, exhausted, anxious, and overwhelmed. Very demanding job, can’t find time for my family, my home, or myself, and worse, for God, I wanted to volunteer at church too. Las week I had a job offer for a paraprofessional position at my former school district, which I greatly miss, but was afraid to breach my contract and face the possibility of negative consequences, so I reluctantly decided to stay and decline the offer and cried over it, thinking of the lost opportunity and how hard it is to enter that district. Since day one I’ve been reaching out for help and asking questions about my current job. I’ve gotten some answers but not enough to make feel confident. I would love to have the courage to speak up for myself; I’m pending my Ttess teacher evaluation and I still don’t know what to do. I really wanted out, after six months of praying, God granted me with this new opportunity but I declined it. I also thought about ethics, the students, and the lack of teachers. I just pray that I can finish the year successfully and leave to my former school district as a paraprofessional, a level III clerk or higher, just how I used to be. After three more years I can retire from the school district le or fromTRS, but I need that freedom of time to be-able to serve at church and be with my family. Please pray, thank you and forever grateful for your beautiful mission. God bless. Virginia
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