[LM_NET] Advanced Ed standards--please help me justify my position

[Robin Chandler <Rchandler@IMMACCS.ORG>]

Yesterday, being in a parochial school, I was told the enrollment is not high 
enough next year for
the budget to continue my services at this point.  The principal wants to go back 
to the church
finance committee in April to argue for more salary money so she doesn't have to 
let me go. 
Although other people on the high end of the salary range are also being dismissed, 
mine is the
only one not up to be replaced.  It seems the school will have neither a computer 
teacher or a
library program. My position is basically two 3/4 jobs, but I love the challenge.  
If enrollment
increases by 10 students, I can keep my job.

Needless to say, after 22 years I am in shock, although I have been concerned for 
two months since
the rumor mill began, and knowing I am on the higher end of the payscale. The 
affliated church even
reimbursed every cent of the tuition I paid to get this position in the first place 
five years ago.
The church is even cutting off part of its investment in its staffing! It is not 
just losing a job,
I am losing a career there, my mission, and my work family.  Morale all around is 
terrible.  I'm
just glad this is vacation.  I am giving myself the weekend to be upset and then 
Monday, I will
begin my job search.

I know this is happening all over and I am just a number in that respect.  

However, we are a SACS/CASI accredited school.  I know SACS had a requirement for a 
certified LMS
on the site, but I haven't specifically found that in the new, combined Advanced Ed 
standards.  I
searched the archives because I know this conversation happened earlier this year, 
but I must not
have the necessary key words to find the entries I wanted.  

If you are familiar enough with these standards, would you please respond directly 
to me?  I know
this is vacation and I may repost after the 15th.

Thanks so much in advance. This list-serve has helped me so much in the last four 
or so years
(since I was assigned to learn about it in my coursework!)

Robin Chandler
Media Specialist
Immaculata School
Hendersonville, NC
rchandler@immaccs.org



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