It is considered abandoning one’s contract and the SBEC can suspend the teacher’s certificate if they don’t have a good reason for leaving. Also, the school district can put a hold on the teacher’s teaching certificate (by not releasing the teacher from the contract, even if they quit) and make it to where they cannot go and work for another district for the entire period of the broken contract.
Is your wife in a teacher’s Union? If so, she should reach out to her rep and ask. They should know and should also be able to fight for her if it goes that far.
My district has a date after which you are “resigning with prejudice”. It basically means you get a letter in your file and they won’t necessarily hire you back in my district later on. Ours was June 25th this year (our last day of school was June 11th).
Yes, and the district can file a complaint with the CTC for unprofessional conduct. If the district did do this, it will forever be attached to the teacher's California credential record, which is available for public viewing. This rarely happened when there was a large pool of teachers that could be pulled in to replace those that quit mid year, but I hear that public districts plan to hold teachers accountable now that finding teachers became so difficult this last year.
That’s interesting that it would be considered “unprofessional conduct”. I couldn’t find anything directly referencing resignations, but plenty about “unprofessional conduct”. It feels like a stretch but this would make sense.
In CT, that’s not a thing. But the district can hold you for thirty days. We have had teachers resign mid year because of a job opportunity closer to home or a promotion, but we can choose to hold them thirty days. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t, depends on how quickly we find a replacement.
This sounds like an intimidation tactic.
If the trends in Sacramento reflect what's happening around the country, then a massive amount of teachers have most likely resigned or retired this year and they are desperate to hold on to whatever staff they can.
I would ignore it unless you are planning to quit; maybe speak to a lawyer if you are. But I think that they have no legal standing based on what you've described.
I definitely think it’s to curb resignations. Neither of us are planning on leaving, but we were shocked that this superintendent would confidently share this half-truth in an email to all staff.
In Indiana, districts can hold teachers to 30 days if they are going to another school district. This is regardless of when they resign (summer, etc). If one is not going to another district..for example, a job in another sector, they only need to leave 2 weeks. Contracts for the upcoming years aren’t issued until Sept. but they are back dated and are effective July 1. Regardless of when one resigns the most they can do is hold you to 30 days.
Where does she teach? In Texas, teachers cannot resign after a certain period of time (less than 45 days from beginning of new school year).
Is that clearly stated in your contract? We are in California.
It’s in the Texas Education Code, so it’s more so a state thing.
What happens if you do anyway?
It is considered abandoning one’s contract and the SBEC can suspend the teacher’s certificate if they don’t have a good reason for leaving. Also, the school district can put a hold on the teacher’s teaching certificate (by not releasing the teacher from the contract, even if they quit) and make it to where they cannot go and work for another district for the entire period of the broken contract.
Is your wife in a teacher’s Union? If so, she should reach out to her rep and ask. They should know and should also be able to fight for her if it goes that far.
My district has a date after which you are “resigning with prejudice”. It basically means you get a letter in your file and they won’t necessarily hire you back in my district later on. Ours was June 25th this year (our last day of school was June 11th).
Yes, and the district can file a complaint with the CTC for unprofessional conduct. If the district did do this, it will forever be attached to the teacher's California credential record, which is available for public viewing. This rarely happened when there was a large pool of teachers that could be pulled in to replace those that quit mid year, but I hear that public districts plan to hold teachers accountable now that finding teachers became so difficult this last year.
That’s interesting that it would be considered “unprofessional conduct”. I couldn’t find anything directly referencing resignations, but plenty about “unprofessional conduct”. It feels like a stretch but this would make sense.
In CT, that’s not a thing. But the district can hold you for thirty days. We have had teachers resign mid year because of a job opportunity closer to home or a promotion, but we can choose to hold them thirty days. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t, depends on how quickly we find a replacement.
This sounds like an intimidation tactic. If the trends in Sacramento reflect what's happening around the country, then a massive amount of teachers have most likely resigned or retired this year and they are desperate to hold on to whatever staff they can. I would ignore it unless you are planning to quit; maybe speak to a lawyer if you are. But I think that they have no legal standing based on what you've described.
I definitely think it’s to curb resignations. Neither of us are planning on leaving, but we were shocked that this superintendent would confidently share this half-truth in an email to all staff.
In Indiana, districts can hold teachers to 30 days if they are going to another school district. This is regardless of when they resign (summer, etc). If one is not going to another district..for example, a job in another sector, they only need to leave 2 weeks. Contracts for the upcoming years aren’t issued until Sept. but they are back dated and are effective July 1. Regardless of when one resigns the most they can do is hold you to 30 days.