Schools need to have a voice
Editor’s note: This article was submitted by teacher Mark Thorsen from Ponderosa High School in Douglas County.
Our school now enters a critical period, and a recent conversation with a well-respected colleague helped to keep some of my angst in perspective. He mentioned that he felt like we were in a period of mourning; we were dealing with a loss. It is a process, and we enter stages of sadness, anger and a sundry of other emotions, emerging with a sense of purpose and duty, knowing that our students show up every day hoping for the best from us.
I am in a precarious position, balancing this notion of service and obligation as a public school teacher with the
