I am NOT a principal.

I am a teacher. I love teaching. I love the classroom. I love students. I miss all of these things in my current job. I love that my job allows me to go home at 11 every day and be with my babies. I love that I have learned a lot. I love that I have met parents and been able to help families in different ways. I do love some things about my job now but I really miss teaching. Someday I will return to it and for now, I am very lucky and so grateful to have what I have.

In my currant position, I work with 2 other coordinators and the principal very closely. We are a team and work very closely with one another - all helping each other out, etc. One coordinator just had a baby yesterday. She was obviously absent. The other coordinator was out sick. The principal was also absent. We have an assistant principal that we share with another school. We see her every other week. This was not our week to see her. Therefore, I was the only member of our admin. team on campus Eek.

I walked into the main office at 7:25 am., was informed of 2 severe discipline issues that needed to be addressed, had a crazy mother throwing her son's breakfast all over the hallway and cussing out the office staff, and teachers bombarding me with reasons that their students were making up for being absent.

At 9:15 I finally got to my office, closed the door, and made a pot of coffee.

I respect principals and those in higher administration. There was a time when I was considering getting my administrator credential. No. I am not a principal. I love students and their families but my current job doesn't offer me the chance to see all of the good parts. I am handed all of the difficult and frustrating parts. Of course, classroom teachers see A LOT of this, as well. However, at least as a teacher, I could have students perform well on a test and know that I had helped them achieve something. Now, I just feel like the enemy all the time, the enforcer, the one you see when you have done something wrong. That is not who I want to be in a school.

Please do not get me wrong...I am so grateful for this position and I have really learned a lot...mostly the fact that I do not want to be a principal.