GREAT READS → DOUBLE TAKE Issue 897 · February 2, 2022

Turf War

They gave me the job, but won't give me my space

Turf War
They gave me the job, but won’t give me my space
Yaeli: You aren’t giving me the resources I need to do my job.
Mrs. Markowitz: We’re doing our best within the limitations we have and everyone else respects that.

 

Yaeli

Really, I was lucky.

I mean, landing a job straight out of grad school isn’t something you take for granted. And when it’s a position as a school social worker, your dream job, at a school just three blocks from your home, you definitely don’t complain.

Which is why I didn’t, at first.

“This is the room you’ll be using,” Mrs. Markowitz, the principal, told me, when she took me on a tour of the building two days before the start of the school year.

The school building was tiny. Literally. It was a miracle they managed to fit the classrooms inside. But it was a new school, starting its second year, and things took time. I could understand that.

Continue reading with Mishpacha.

Create a free account to keep reading.

Everything you need to stay close to Mishpacha.
← Previous installment Out of the Woods: Epilogue    Next installment → Normal: Chapter 9