NOTE: This was written by a teacher in a high poverty district somewhere in the Midwest. Child and Teacher Abuse in full effect
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time to maintain achievement, right? To prevent the "summer slide" and
keep students engaged and excited about learning. After all, it's
building relationships with our students that can extend far beyond the
confines of classroom walls.
But
what happens when the school offering summer school has no air
conditioning? Does that sound beneficial? Healthy? Safe? Temperatures
inside the classroom reading 98 degrees on the thermostat. How about
that for the student with Epilepsy who's seizures are triggered by heat
exhaustion and dehydration. Sound safe? Healthy? Beneficial?
If
that doesn't have your attention, let's turn up the heat a little more.
Requiring teachers to supervise lunch for the students but not allowing
them to eat. Not allowing them to sit down. Oh no, teachers must waste
instructional time. While students eat inside the fiery furnace called
the cafeteria, their teachers are commanded to stand and do flash cards
or another educational task. Teachers are expected to not only suffer
these conditions themselves, but to sit by and watch their students
suffer, too. Every minute counts, right? Don't waste precious time
walking kids to the drinking fountain, either. The water is not only
warm, it's "against district policy" to use instructional time in too
many transitions.
Yes, the fire has been lit, folks.
Our kids, who deserve better, are being burned. They deserve the best
and brightest education. Your highly qualified, certified teachers and
their students are suffering in silence while those at the top are
sitting inside their air conditioned offices on the phone with the next
best corporation who's in the running for the silver bullet. The next
"new program" they will demand the teachers use in the classroom to
bring up those test scores. Here's an idea for administration and school
boards.
If you want to bring up the scores and raise
the achievement gap, turn down the heat on your teachers. Take some of
the pressure off your teachers. If you can't do it for them, do it for
our students. Provide them with safe and healthy learning conditions.
Foster an environment built on the foundation that our teachers and
students deserve nothing short of the best. Stop burning the candle on
both ends with the corporate world. They don't know our students. You
don't know our students.
We, the teachers know our
students. You want to know why your good, hardworking teachers are
leaving the profession? They're sick, physically and emotionally.
They're tired. They can't stand being on the front line every single day
sacrificing blood, sweat and tears, all to no avail. They, along with
their students, are dying inside while fires set by you rage beneath
them, threatening to extinguish all they've ever known and loved. Each
other. Hang up the phone, step away from the computer in your chilled
office and save our teachers and students from the blazing inferno
you've put them in.
Signed,One Fired Up Teacher
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