
Teacher’s resignation letter: 
‘My profession … no longer 
exists’
By Valerie Strauss, Updated: April 6, 2013
Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they 
believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting 
because they have had enough.
Here is one resignation letter from a veteran teacher, Gerald J. Conti, a 
social studies teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, N.Y.:
Mr. Casey Barduhn, Superintendent
Westhill Central School District
400 Walberta Park Road
Syracuse, New York 13219
Dear Mr. Barduhn and Board of Education Members:
It is with the deepest regret that I must retire at the close of this school 
year, ending my more than twenty-seven years of service at Westhill on 
June 30, under the provisions of the 2012-15 contract. I assume that I 
will be eligible for any local or state incentives that may be offered prior 
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