Aging Teachers Ask Themselves, Do I Quit Or Risk My Life?

[BigmanPigman]

8. My doctors made me stop reaching

since the classroom environment which mad me sick (black mold in ceiling of my classroom, it was soon torn down after I got sick). Then I kept getting sick constantly (90% of school year). I had to leave at 51 years old with no health insur except the ACA and 50% of my salary for the rest of my life (basically my health bills are 30% of my yearly income and I have multiple illnesses now). I get disability retirement since I can't teach....very limited, fixed income. Schools care about $$$ and the bottom line. They are a business I quickly learned. When my students and I were all on inhalers the school's health inspector gave me a can of Lysol for a classroom with no windows, he also told me to keep the door closed. I went to the union and they got REAL health inspectors out and they got the sick building torn down within the month.