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Should this experience put me off my chosen career?
I'm supposed to be going to university in September to do primary school teaching. I went into my old primary school a few weeks ago, and they were really nice to me and remembered me and I asked if I could come back and volunteer. They told me I would have to email the headmistress (this is a new headmistress since I left) and she never replied. My mum rang, and the headmistress rang us back (my dad answered) she said 'I'm afraid it's a NO' and when my dad asked a reason 'oh erm well we have a lot of students'. Maybe I'm really sensitive, but I was devastated about this. It's even put me off going to uni to do my teacher training. I was hoping I could back to my primary on placement when I'm at uni and apply there when I graduated. The other thing is my dream is to be an actress, but I'm planning to study to be a teacher so I have that behind me as a back-up, and go for acting opportunities at the same time. But people tell me I'm doing the wrong thing and I should go to drama school if I want to be an actress
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- EmpressLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
If you want to work as any professional in any career you will need to learn not to be so sensitive. There are any number of reasons why she may have said no and you need to respect her answer without taking it personally. As a headteacher she has so many other people to consider and first and foremost are her students.
If you want to be a teacher then go ahead and do you training - this has no bearing on your decision.
- Beautiful -Lv 69 years ago
If your taking that one no so hard, then how will you cope as an actress, in an industry where you are constantly being told no?
Why don't you look into doing secondary drama, at least that way you will be engulfed in your career subject!
I am a qualified teacher, and like you, choice to do my PGCE secondary ed as a fall back career choice.. as I want to be a film composer.
After the course ended I went straight into my a Masters degree in composing.. the course ended, iv made nothing of my composition career and now my PGCE is needed to bail me out.
So even if other people can't see your plan, your choice could be right for you.
Unfort the government has made many changes to the schooling system, and I have only come across 5 posts across the whole UK for my subject.
So I wrote to 5 schools so that I could volunteer for free.. they all said no.
The fact that their turning down a qualified teacher, with immense experience, to work for free did hit me. It does make you question if its you at fault. but if you think that way you will never progress.
