An Ad in the Newspaper

Last Friday, an ad came out in the newspaper. It was a classified ad for a middle school social studies teacher at Chaminade. It ran in a rather obscure newspaper in St. Louis, but it was only a matter of time before colleagues and parents connected the dots and learned that I was leaving.

I almost made it through Parent-Teacher Conferences yesterday without breaking the news. Near the end of the day, a colleague’s wife (and 6^th grade parent) asked me, “Are you leaving Chaminade?” Of course, I had to tell her the truth. I’m sure she won’t tell anyone, but the first domino has fallen.