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What is the best way to do this? It is about two weeks before the semester and I have not signed anything other than a letter of intent. I have not decided either just wanted to know the respectable way to bow out.
Are you thinking of resigning? Check with your district or private school about protocol for not returning for the next school year. Be careful about that letter of intent. Every district or private school has different rules for notification about not returning the following school year. Teachers have lost their license because they did not notify their district with the proper protocol and within the specified time frame.
If it were me I wouldn't accept and then decline later on. I think that's an ethics issue, even though it's technically legal. I would personally call the principal you accepted the position from or I would send an e-mail to that principal stating why you are backing out.
I've seen people do this before and never thought highly of those teachers. The worst is the ones who accept and just don't show up to sign the contract, leaving you in limbo and scrambling for a teacher right before the school year begins.
Me personally, if I accepted a position, that is my word and I would never back out on my word. In the past, I accepted an offer before because I was somewhat desperate. Shortly after, I was given an offer in a better location and for $10,000 more, but declined because my word is my word. If I said I accepted the position I would never back out of that. Your reputation follows you.
This reply is about federal jobs which, of course, has little relation to you job offer, but my son-in-law, an architect, worked for a federal prison after graduation. On a whim he applied for a job in D.C. designing new prisons. He didn't hear anything back, and after nearly a year went by they built a new home and my daughter got pg as they decided they were going to settle in their new community. Then came the reply that he'd been accepted for the D.C. job.
He told his boss that he no longer wanted it, given the changes in their life over the past year, but his boss said if he refused it at that point that he'd NEVER get another federal job/promotion. So they moved to D.C. for a couple years, then moved back when the timing was right.
Just saying... if you indicated you wanted the job and then turn it down, you might have a hard time getting hired there later. Or maybe not.
The best job I've ever had came 6 months after I turned it down the first time it was offered, but that was private industry. (They doubled the offer, then doubled it again and offered me a huge bonus to stay after I gave notice two years later.)
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