| By the end of the school year, Jo Beth was a total wreck. Clearly, she'd chosen the wrong second career. She'd begun with one disease, and now had two. She had to face the fact that, not only did she have to leave the field of teaching, but she would no longer be able to work full time at any job. She wouldn't be able to manage even a part-time job, if it required much standing, bending, lifting, or significant mental effort. The $10,000 loan she'd taken out to become credentialed was wasted. So was the over $2,000 she'd invested in teaching and learning materials--handbells, recorders, CDs, videos, history artifacts... Jo Beth truly believed that staying in the classroom with all its stress and long hours, added to the immune system challenges from the children's many illnesses, would mean a third disease. A third strike, and she'd be DEAD. |
No More Teacher's Dirty Looks
Where Jo Beth is forced to end her second career.
Where Jo Beth is forced to end her second career.
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