A Divine Connection: Experiencing a Moment

Freddie Woods Wilson

Description

I began a career working with children
as a substitute teacher in Germany in
1992 and continued to work for the schools in various school districts when we
returned to the United States.
I loved it so much. Being an encourager/mentor, working with children and seeing
them learn became my passion. I want to thank Barbara Davis, a teacher, for her
continuous persuasiveness to get me to come aboard to work in the schools. I love
children, and I loved my job working with them. It was just amazing. After about
six months in North Carolina, I decided to get back into the school system in 1995
because I love children, and I enjoyed working with children.

Sujets

• Vie de famille
• Relations familiales
• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 16 août 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781477129982
• Langue: English

Extrait

A Divine Connection: Experiencing a Moment
 
Keep Pushing Forward Based on a True Story
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Freddie Woods Wilson
 
Copyright © 2012 by Freddie Woods Wilson.
 
ISBN:
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Dedication
To my parents and for my children (Talaski, LaQuantia, and Raquel) whom I love so much. I hope that one day they will share this with their children and grandchildren. I dedicate this book to My loving and dearest husband who tells me daily that everything is going to work out and that I will be all right, just wait and see and trust God. Thank you, Barbara, for being a very good inspirational and Christian therapist. I didn’t know that existed anywhere.
 
Thanks, Miriam and Helona, two great friends who were always there for me while I was experiencing this challenging moment of my life. I appreciate you listening and your words of encouragement through this season. You both touched my heart. I love you.
 
Mamie Kendell, thank you for being my Christian mentor; you inspired me so much. I thank God for allowing me to share and inspire others who read this book that they will have a divine connection and experiencing moment as they push forward to their destiny.
 
Thank you Xlibris staff especially Kay Benavides, Michael Velasquez, and Carla Cobar for helping me put all of this into a book. I appreciate all of you. Last but certainly not least, to the person reading this book thank you. May God Bless You.
INTRODUCTION
I BEGAN A career working with children as a substitute teacher in Germany in 1992 and continued to work for the schools in various school districts when we returned to the United States.
 
I loved it so much. Being an encourager/mentor, working with children and seeing them learn became my passion. I want to thank Barbara Davis, a teacher, for her continuous persuasiveness to get me to come aboard to work in the schools. I love children, and I loved my job working with them. It was just amazing. After about six months in North Carolina, I decided to get back into the school system in 1995 because I love children, and I enjoyed working with children.
SUMMARY
B REN CRAMER, A substitute teacher, was working under the same management and organization for eight years. Bren was promoted to another position in this same organization as an educator by Dr. Jones who was promoted to a principal. Dr. Jones had been an assistant principal for years.
 
After working in this position for four months, Bren Cramer was given a termination memorandum on February 9, 2009, and was sent home at about 8:30 AM . The craziest thing was that the memorandum was dated December 19, 2008, for inappropriate conduct. Bren began to cry and asked the principal, “Why did you give me this termination letter, Dr. Jones? Was it because I complained to you about Mrs. Spencer’s behavior toward me?” I repeated this several times to the principal. He stated that it’s because that’s what the higher-up said to do. That was all he said the whole time I was in his office crying uncontrollably. I had no clue of who was his higher-up at the time because I did not know why he would discuss taking the job away from me and making these allegations on this termination letter without discussing it with me first, and then I would not have been so upset and surprised on that day.
 
From that day, February 9, 2009, I walked over to so many offices of people who I thought could or would lead me in the right direction until I was exhausted. I wanted so desperately to return back to work the next day. I was so sure that my union representative could have made that happen, but instead she ask me to file an EEO Complaint. I was so upset because I was losing a job with this agency that I had been working with for years. The Principal wanted me to accept what was on the termination letter. It was many reasons as to why I could not accept this letter. Some of everything was going through my head. I knew then I needed to go back and talk with the principal again experiencing a moment keep pushing forward.
I was so sure that my union representative was taking care of this situation. I knew then that I needed to go back and talk with the principal again.
 
The principal should have resolved the issues between us at one point. I thought I could overlook things, but I really needed the communication. We were coworkers and I worked with the student the teacher had assigned to me to work with. He knew that there were problems between the two of us. But by request of Mrs. Spencer, who wanted me to work with a student that she did not want to work with herself, I was told later on that she asked the principal if I could stay in her room, and she will send someone else to replace me in the other classroom to work with Crystal, I will work with Randy. That was okay, but no one told me, and by this time, Mrs. Spencer’s attitude had changed toward me. She was very rude and was not showing me any respect. I was hired to work with Crystal who I was asked to work with as her one-on-one teacher, although I never got it in writing or anything else. Everything was verbal. She has cerebral palsy. Randy was a new student, and his records were not in at that time at the school where he had to be screened, so I didn’t know at that time that she knew his handicap. I requested for Randy Individual Education Plan.
 
Why couldn’t this principal just do the right thing? Mrs. Amanda acted unprofessionally by showing hatred and disrespect to me. I was the new teacher in the classroom but was not new to the school system. She would begin to target/attack Bren verbally for no apparent reason. Dr. Tony Jones, the principal, did not want to discipline Mrs. Spencer; instead, he decided to terminate Bren Cramer after four months.
 
Mrs. Cramer struggled to correct this situation. The representative at the AFGE Union recommended to Mrs. Cramer to file an equal employment case.
 
Then resignation was put into place. It got crazy !
 
The agency said that Mrs. Cramer resigned when in fact she didn’t. The human resource manager, Mrs. Glenda Tyrese, typed up a resignation document and used Mrs. Cramer’s signature from different documents where she had put her name and address and attached it to resignation/separation papers. Well, of course, Mrs. Cramer didn’t see this papers until July 2009. Experiencing a moment keep pushing forward. For months, I was so discombobulated when I was going through this turmoil in my life. I called the eight hundred number to President Obama’s office several times that was listed online. When they answered the telephone, I was surprised to find out it was a real person on the telephone. I talked to her, then she transferred me back to another person. You have to go through so many changes when you need someone or the right person. I just wanted somebody to talk to because I was treated so badly. Then you call the next number; you get a voice machine, then you don’t stop there. Oh God, I need someone to help me. I was not treated fairly. All I could think of was not being treated fairly on the job, but why can’t I get someone to listen? When I talked to others, they said that I should contact our senator, so I did contact her office. Her office is located in Dunn, North Carolina. I received a letter from the Washington, D. C., office. All at once, results started happening again. The Dunn office was communicating with the necessary agency. While I am waiting to hear from the office of Federal Operations, I am experiencing a moment while moving forward. God “Here, take it. This has been a big burden, a big monster. I give this to you; I will not pick it back up again.” My head and mind is full. My heart is heavy. I am weak from so much worry. My parents need my help in Minden. God, please, I need you. I need you right now. I need to work. God came and delivered. I am not back at work yet, but I have a peace of mind; I got joy and love. I just want to thank everyone who made these songs that I listen to regularly.
Termination Memorandum
December 19, 2008
 
Inappropriate Conduct
 
On this termination letter, the principal also has other dates on the termination memo:
 
A. He said that I said I was going to take Mrs. Spencer to the altar to pray for her on Sunday, January 29, 2009. I did say that, but it was said on January 30, 2009, and I felt if that was a problem or something or if Dr. Jones did not like me to say that, he should have called me to his office instead of me seeing this statement on this termination memo because Mrs. Spencer told him that I said this. Students had an early release on the thirtieth, and I really believe that that’s why he did not put the actual date. I was off duty also because when my students leave, I am to leave when they are on the bus.
B. On January 29, 2009, he said that I was angry when I failed to return back to the classroom at a reasonable time afte