TFA makes a really big deal about “organizational skill” at all levels of their interview process…
I assume most people just bull shit this, but it really is probably the NUMBER ONE quality that effective educators hold universally. Not that all people need to be organized in a uniform way, or that messy people can’t hold their own perfectly efficient organization systems, but I had nooooo idea how disorganized I could really be until I suddenly had a classroom to take care of, student work to file, gradebooks and records to upkeep, bills to pay, TFA paperwork to do, City paperwork to do, AND Hopkins paperwork to do. And there is a LOT of it. Honestly, I am such an obsessive, focused, anxious person that I don’t even write anything down. I just memorize everything and made it through four intensive years of college without problem by remembering all the things I had to in my head (didn’t tell TFA that, though).
Anyway, long story short, Hopkins put a hold on my account and says I owe them 8,000$. In investigating the matter, apparently I submitted my tuition reimbursement to North Ave (district), and my school, but not Hopkins itself. Oy vey. Fortunately they were accommodating and I am pretty sure I just need to go to North Ave and get receipts/proof I turned it in and new copies and send it to Hopkins and they can make the bill go away… but no matter what I’m not going to be able to pay that. It would lit’rally bankrupt me and, frankly, I’d rather drop out.
