Thursday, October 16, 2008

Internship

So the long, ongoing internship debate is STILL going! For those of you that don't know what I'm talkin about let me fill you in.......
------So as most of you know, I am a Head Teacher in a preschool lab on campus. When I was first offered the job at the end of last semester they asked if I could stay and do it 2 semesters and jokingly I said that yes, I would, if they could make it count as my internship. Well they looked into it...slowly they looked into it. The very first part of this semester they talked about it more as a dept and then just a week or two ago they had a final THREE HOUR meeting over the issue and it was settled...the child and family dept agreed that I could use it as my internship. Now it was time to ask the college head of internships and to make sure it fit all the criteria of on-campus internships. The guy (convientently named Guy) was hard to get ahold of but the one in charge of internships in our dept (Bro McCoy) kept trying until he finally got a hold of him. He didn't sound promising but didn't give a yes or no and instead told Bro McCoy he had to talk to his boss when all this time we all thought he was the boss. Anyway, I talked to Bro McCoy today and he had a message from someone that is actually under Guy who told us "NO." Apparently Guy passed the buck to someone else just because he didnt want to tell us no. But now, Bro McCoy and my supervising teacher from the labs (Bro Anderson) are fighting it, litterally almost fighting it. Apparently the conversation between Guy and Bro McCoy was a little heated today. But it doesn't make sense as to why they have to say "no." An on campus internship has to be 20 hours a week and my job has hours that vary from week to week but the average is 15 hours a week, so since I am 5 hours short the answer is "no." But....when doing an off campus internship it doesnt matter how many hours it takes a week! Does that make sense to anyone else???? So basically my teachers are being AWESOME and really fighting for this and are demanding legitimate rational for why the answer has to be "no" and why those 5 hours really matter all that much. They even offered to give me 5 more hours of "fluff" a week just to make it count and of course, the college is only looking out for our future and don't want us to do that! So needless to say this internship road we've been going down for litterally months now is gettin a little frustrating and I've pretty much lost all faith in the phrase, "We'll know by the end of the week!"

1 comment:

Heather said...

I'm sorry Heid, hopefully they will get it figured out soon. If won't let it count for your internship then what do you have to do for it?
Love ya!