Return To School Or Retire? Pick Your Poison by Dr. Michael Flanagan
Let me begin this piece by thanking our retiring educators for their years of service in America’s public schools.
Teachers are there for our students on good days and bad days. Through their successes and failures, their high points and low points. The day-to-day interactions and emotional connections we make with our students is what fills our souls.
It is a “big reveal” for someone who has put twenty or thirty years into a profession to announce they are retiring. For educators especially, it can be very emotional. Not only are we leaving our careers and beginning the next phase of our lives, we are saying goodbye to our students.
Retirement is usually accompanied by celebration and an acknowledgement of a productive career. But since the coronavirus has abruptly ended the Spring 2020 semester, this year’s retirees will miss that acknowledgement and closure.
Contemplating retirement is difficult under the best of circumstances, but now that decision has become immensely more complicated. Covid-19 and the economic collapse have created a life and CONTINUE READING: Return To School Or Retire? Pick Your Poison by Dr. Michael Flanagan — Badass Teachers