[LM_NET] serious concern

[Sue Reichard <sreich@EPIX.NET>]

HI group,
I am currently a reading teacher in my middle school, I teach 7th graders. 3 years 
ago I learned that our library media specialist was going to retire and so I 
pondered this for perhaps 5 minutes and decided I wanted to take her position. Not 
her place, she is awesome and I cannot possibly fill her 35 year shoes. I will 
certainly try though. My problem is this... when colleagues learn that I am going 
to be the new librarian.. they act as if I have lost my mind.. now they do not say 
this directly of course, because they are "professionals". but I get the distinct 
reaction that they are thinking, "why would you leave the classroom for the 
library?.. Are you nuts? This is not my imagination. We have a new principal and 
when I passed my Praxis test for LMS I gave her a copy of my test results and she 
pulled me aside and asked me why???Again, I felt like she was asking.."Why would 
you want to leave the classroom and JUST be a librarian.?" I have been really 
offended by this... what do you all think about this??

Sue Reichard
7th Grade Reading Teacher
Troy Middle School
Troy, Pa. 16914

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