My Rejection letters

Well I did get the job with both the Summit Academies, and with Hope High School. I ended up taking the job with Hope High because they offered me $31,000 which was less than I had wanted but not as low as the joke of an offer from Summit Academies which was $27,000 with no acknowledgement of my teaching experience.

For prosperity I will attach in this post all the rejection e-mails that I received from my Spring and Summer of applying for teaching jobs.

I'm posting my rejection e-mails in reverse chronological order.

This was the rejection letter from Lakewood Schools for a High School Science Teacher position.

July 5, 2005


Dear Candidate:

Thank you for your interest in the Science Teacher position at Lakewood High School. We were fortunate to have a number of outstanding candidates interview for this position.

After careful consideration, the position have been offered to and accepted by another applicant.

Once again, thank you for your interest.

Sincerely,

JoAnn M. Berkowitz
Director of Personnel

JMB/kr

Here is rejection letter from Lakewood for a Middle School Science teaching position.

July 5, 2005



Dear Candidate:

Thank you for your interest in the Middle School Science Teacher position at Emerson Middle School. We were fortunate to have a number of outstanding candidates interview for this position.

After careful consideration, the position have been offered to and accepted by another applicant.

Once again, thank you for your interest.

Sincerely,

JoAnn M. Berkowitz
Director of Personnel

JMB/kr

This is a letter of rejection from the Lorain County Joint Vocational School for a Science Instructor position, this was dated July 20th.

Thank you for taking the time to apply for the position of Science Instructor. We were impressed with your qualifications and experiences. I must tell you, we have concluded our search for this position and have offered the job to another applicant.

Please keep us in mind when considering employment opportunities in the future. Thanks again for your interest in the Lorain County Joint Vocational School.

Sincerely,
Michael S. Larson
Assistant Superintendent

This is a letter of rejection from Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Schools for a Substitute Teaching Position, this was dated Aug 11th.

Job Posting: Substitute Positions - Daily - for Teachers / Educational Aides / Other Professional Positions
Posting ID: POS20040805000001
Location: Board of Education

This position has been filled. Thank you for applying and please feel free to apply for other positions in the District for which you are properly qualified.

This is another letter of rejection from Lorain County Joint Vocational School for an Alternative Learning Monitor (In-house Suspension Teacher), this was dated Aug 23rd.

Thank you for taking the time to apply for the position of Alternative Learning Monitor. We were impressed with your qualifications and experiences. I must tell you, we have concluded our search for this position and have offered the job to another applicant.

Please keep us in mind when considering employment opportunities in the future. Thanks again for your interest in the Lorain County Joint Vocational School.

Granted I applied for way more than five positions over this past spring and summer. However I believe that the school systems should a least give the meager courtesy of notifying potential applicants about their rejection instead of not communicating at all. I applied for many positions over the Ohio State Department of Education's Online Job database. Basically the schools just log on to the database and pull the applicants that they saw had applied. I cannot imagine that it would be very difficult to pull the names an e-mails of applicants an make a mail merge to send out a mass email of rejection.

Even though the letters of rejection above were generic and canned. I applaud them for having the common courtesy of replying back to me with a rejection letter.