That wasn’t the worst of it. Instead of respecting me, and showing me hakaros hatov for my devotion and dedication for working “with” him because he told me that he couldn’t open this school and run this school without me, he treated me as a volunteer and allowed others to treat me as a volunteer with not only less authority than the paid employees but no authority at all. My devotion to the children and the school meant nothing even though it usurped all my attention away from my own family.

The “faculty” even told the children that I “was ONLY a volunteer” and actually caused a battle of loyalties between us. Even through all of this I had his back even though he did NOT have mine. In the end, the Faculty that he supported and promoted instead of the “partner” he pumped up to join him in this venture, left him mid-term and took more than half the students with him. So much for loyalty from the paid employees. But even that did not teach him a lesson in loyalty to me and how to treat those you work with, with the same respect you expect of them. When I had my fill of being stepped on and stabbed in the back, I quit and took everything I bought with my “OWN” money with me.

I am still very connected to the students in that school and the other. Many are still a part of my extended family and I am “bobby” to their children. I don’t believe I can say the same for him.