Kindergarten Teacher, as the person they had hired for this position had decided to resign. For the 2007/2008 school year I taught K-4. For the 2008/2009 school year I taught Third Grade. Upon the beginning of the 2009/2010 school year, I was requested to be the Head Teacher of the Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade classes, being told that I was one of the better teachers they had. I gladly accepted this promotion of title, and continued, also, as Third Grade Teacher. However, during the 2009/2010 school year, I had one of Nelson Cash's grandchildren in my classroom. During this school year, on two separate occasions, the granddaughter made below average grades on two separate tests. These grades would have prevented her from making A-B Honor Roll. On the first occasion, I was informed to re-teach the curriculum, and offer the test again to the entire class, counting the highest grade made. On the second occasion, I was informed to cancel out the lowest grade of each of the students in that particular subject. On both occasions, I notated the Grade Book, in large red writing, of the Principle's order. I was also informed that I was at fault for the below average grade, and that I needed to find new ways to help the students relate to the curriculum. At the closing of the school year, I was informed that both the Principle (Nelson's daughter) and the Dean (Nelson's wife) felt that my lack of ability as a teacher during the school year of 2009/2010 was due to my own lack of focus. There was another occasion during the 2009/2010 school year that I was called into a conference by both the Principle and the Dean, as they thought the disciplinary measures I used were too strict for the Third Grade Students. However, I brought The Rock School Teacher Manuel into the meeting in order to show them that I was simply following the Teacher Manuel's Rules, and that in the contract I signed on August 6, 2009 under Support of School, one of the statements clearly stated I should abide by all policies of that manual, "By signing this contract, I accept to abide by all policies set forth herein and in the Employee Handbook for the duration of my employment with The Rock School." This meeting came about because I had issued sentences to their granddaughter for talking excessively in class, yet while in class she decided to color on color sheets she had brought from home instead, so I sent the sentences home for homework along with a note that stated why she would have to complete them for homework. The Rock School Teacher Manuel stated, for this age group, that sentences could be issued after the third warning. After pointing this section out to the Dean during this conference, I was informed that these rules were merely guidelines, but that I could offer grace where necessary. The Dean then told the Principle to write that in my Teacher Manuel.
Unfortunately, I have not been the only teacher who has had to deal with the family inconsistencies of The Rock School. When this very same grandchild was in Kindergarten, she told her grandfather (Nelson Cash) that a little boy in her class was saying ugly things to her and picking on her. Nelson Cash himself addressed this young Kindergarten boy in the Kindergarten class one day telling him that he better stop picking on his granddaughter. On another occasion, another grandchild of Nelson Cash's was not returning her reading homework to school signed. The teacher gave grace to the child, but then sent a note home to the mother telling her that, if she continued returning the reading form unsigned, she would have to issue her a zero. The mother returned a letter the next day stating that her daughter reads all of the time and does not deserve a zero. And, yet another instance, when the Jr. High students were being made to walk laps around the field as a disciplinary measure offered by the school coach. Another one of Nelson's grandchildren, while passing through the hall, expressed to me her anger of having to walk and stated she was going to the office to tell her mother. Needless to say, the coach was told to not use that measure of discipline, and the students were not made to walk.
For the school year of 2010/2011, in order to pay my portion of my two children's tuition to The Rock School, I had agreed to clean the lunchroom every day between 12:30-2:30. After leaving the congregation of The Rock Church in January, I had planned to continue doing so, as my children were still in school there, and I would complete what I had promised. However, on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, after beginning my daily routine of cleaning the lunchroom, Nelson Cash's wife approached me with a piece of paper, and stated she had heard that we had left the church. I informed her we had left the congregation but we were still in the church. She proceeded to tell me that when the children were enrolled in the school at the beginning of the school year, they had given us a lower tuition rate because we were members of The Rock Church. She then added that because we were no longer members of The Rock Church, I now owed her $150 more, and there would be no more clocking in/out. Instead, I would have to go through the office as a visitor before entering The Rock School premises. At that point, I felt a burden had been lifted off of me, and I smiled at her saying, "I'm done." I placed the broom against the wall, and calmly exited the side door, walked through the under-eve walkway which entered the school, through the school hall way, and into the school office where I requested my children be called to the office for check out. The entire way, Nelson's wife followed after me speaking words she had hoped would anger me. After calling my children to check out, I waited in the hall by the school office for them. Nelson's wife stood there making snide comments toward me the entire duration. Including informing all who were in ear's standing, which included the 11th grade class whose door was closed, that I was apparently a mother who cursed at her children and kicked them out of my home, and that I was also a husband beater. I responded by informing her that she was misinformed. At this point, my 9 year old son had arrived at the office, and once she noticed he was standing there, she stated she was not going to argue in front of a child, so I told her to stop arguing then and grow up. She then proceeded to tell me that I "need help", which is when I walked outside to await for my 16 year old son. Needless to say, she followed me out there too. After informing my mother (who still remains in that congregation) of what had just happened, I received this email from Nelson's wife, "You lied again I did not say anything about going up on your tuition that paper I was trying to give you was showing you how much of your tuition you had worked off. The only changed I was telling you I was making was checking in with the office when you got there and checking out when you left instead of a time card. So stop your lies!" In which I responded, "May our Father convict your heart in the lies you and your family are telling others. If you do not stop attacking my family, and if you choose to continue with this nonsense, I will expose your husband in his own personal sin, which I have emails to prove as well as text messages forwarded to emails. You may have everyone else fooled who remains in The Rock Church, which are few, but God knows all things. God KNOWS ALL THINGS! Indeed, you did inform me that I owed you $150. If you, as a believer, truly believed that someone has fallen away, as a child of God, you would want to love and nurture the lost person back into Kingdom health. What YOU presented me with yesterday was an attempt to stab what "you feel" is a lost soul. I am doing as I've been instructed by my Father. May God bless you, and you and yours will forever remain in my prayers. (Luke 6:28) Do not contact or attempt to contact myself or any member of my family anymore." After removing my children from The Rock School, I quickly realized that they are not accredited by the public school standard, and my 16 year old was required to test in to the public school system, but was not able to transfer his credits. This could have caused him being placed into the 9th Grade. We had to begin home schooling him to assure that he would graduate on time. This also happened to another young lady in his class. She actually did end up back in the 9th Grade. Fortunately, her school offers credit recovery, so she will be back in the 11th Grade for year 2011/2012.
