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In reply to the discussion: When you were a kid, did you start school before or after Labor Day. I always started the day after Labor Day. When did [View all]debm55
(35,323 posts)steps. The office would not call an ambulance or drive me to the hospital. I left and drove 6 miles home with a concussion. My head heart and I took a Advil and went to sleep. Not a good thing. That was in April and I did not go back. When I came back I was given the job as a teacher on a cart. During the summer I had to learn to talk, walk and use my cognitive abilities. again. Teachers complained that I did not show up to the class on time and they missed part of their prep period. I called the PA Workmens Compensation --only students were witness, so the no WC. Unemployment---I was fired =no UC. Non Union school. that tells you everything. I threw everything I saved for 40 some years in the school trash bin. Most, if not all I bought. People say I should have gotten a lawyer. It was a Catholic school, I haven't stepped foot in a church since then(except for my fathers funeral Mass) I received envelopes this morning I put them in the shredder. What really hurt, was that the teachers there==the ones I made christmas sweatshirts for never called, never sent me a card. Neither did the school principal. It left a bad taste in my mouth. Not about teaching, but about the school.