Dear Amanda M:

Congratulations on your marriage to Pat, how wonderful!

Reads to me that your current position is unhealthy for you, it is not congruent with mental health to spend time repeatedly in an aggressive environment. If the administration was dysfunctional but removed, that is, not aggressive toward you, then you could focus on your own classroom and be somehow, somewhat okay with the administrative dysfunction. But aggression is a different animal, we need to protect ourselves from aggression.

Is there any other option, other than the part time (and the current full time)?

Regarding the part time that you rejected but which is probably still available to you: how would it interrupt your lifestyle, that is, being able to travel?

What is the subject that you teach now and what is the subject matter that you would be teaching if you took on the part time, the one you are not passionate about?

anita