stupidity of the system...

[nocarier]

so in applying to these school districts for employment in the fall, i am running into the same problem : they want me to have OFFICAL transcripts sent from USF to them... thats $30 per copy... so if i want to apply to 4 different districts, thats $120 TO APPLY FOR JOBS

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lol, maybe florida isn't all THAT backwards

[anonymous]

when I got my teaching job in Florida, they ended up calling me based on a substitute application and I still had to pay the $30 application fee...from there, I had to pay $56 for my temporary certificate as well as $30 for a copy of my USF transcript. That was $116 for just 1 job. Granted, I had already been offered the job, but I still had to pay for all this stuff out of my pocket (or my dad's pocket, as it were) and I wouldn't be getting a paycheck for another 4 to 5 weeks. I found out about the credit union that was associated with the county, though. They offered short term loans for just hired teachers that they would approve at a super low interest rate and were the amount of what 1 of my paychecks would be. They then took out $50 per paycheck over the course of the school year to pay it back and it helped me out very much so. Anything like that up by you?

Re: lol, maybe florida isn't all THAT backwards

[nocarier]

i'm not sure... i'm up in Georgia now... its quite a racket they have... but less fucked up than florida... i couldn't teach in florida because i had a criminal history when i was a minor, no convictions, no nolo contendre, nothing like that, just arrests... they told me that i had too many occurences with the law.. heh... up here they ask "any convictions after your 17th birthday" heh