The following post was written by an elementary school teacher. This person could be your neighbor…a friend…a family member…or just someone you know on social media. This teacher hasn’t shared how they feel with anyone outside of their family, because there is so much pushback from persons in their community, and angry demands that teachers “get back to work!”
As if teachers haven’t been working all this time.
As if teachers don’t care about their students, or miss their colleagues.
As if teachers aren’t suffering in this pandemic in the same ways that those parents demanding an immediate reopening of the schools are suffering.
So here, with a few of my own thoughts interspersed below, are the unfiltered thoughts of a public school teacher about to return to their school for the first time in nearly a year…in the hopes that persons demanding those schools reopen consider the thoughts of teachers as they grapple with this decision…
“Feeling so distraught and angry and frustrated and scared today about everything…I hope you CONTINUE READING: The Forgotten Voices in the School Reopening Debate: Teachers | Eclectablog