I, too, was driven out of a teaching job-having been hired to teach one year
(physics and physical science) then take directorship of their third
planetarium when it opened. But, I was drafted. When I came back in three
years-with the veteran's guaranteed right of my old job back, plus whatever
promotion I would have received had I been there (the planetarium
directorship)-I found that the person who had recruited me was gone. His
replacement told me I would have to wait for the next planetarium opening
and would have to teach until then. When I kept repeating requests for some
planetarium experience, the principal and his cronies subjected me to such
harassment that in just a year and a half they drove me into accepting an
unpaid study leave "until a planetarium was available". While I was gone.
they gave the planetarium directorship to a person with no background-and, I
was told to return to teach or be terminated. This was 8 years after I had
been recruited. I started reliving the torture sessions-up to 8 hours/day
though, in recent years, paxil decreases the intensity of the
episodes-usually. That school system still gets federal funding as an "Equal
Opportunity" employer. The principal eventually was made superintendant.

>From: "kybbw60" <pony_78@...>
>Reply-To: emotionalabuse@yahoogroups.com
>To: emotionalabuse@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Emotional Abuse] New to this group and abused. Again!
>Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:42:35 -0000
>
>
>Hi, I recently walked out of my teaching job of 4 yrs. because I could
>no longer take the emotional abuse I was receiving from the
>principal. My heart had started to skip beats, my blood pressure was
>rising, and my nerves were shot. I cringed ever time he walked into my
>classroom or I saw him coming up the hallway. I would think "What did
>I do now?" Myself and other staff members have felt that since he
>came to the school 3 yrs ago that he has been trying to get rid of us.
>Well, he won. Now I'm trying to get him out of the school and away
>from the students and other staff members.
>
>I have been emotionally abused in the past. I was married for 14 yrs.
>and learned through counseling that I had been abused. I just thought
>life was that way.
>
>How do I stop this man from doing this to those who remain behind?
>
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