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View submission: Prayer request reflect true social concern.
As a 30-year teacher /now retired and subbing, here's what concerns me:
- If support staff is pushed back into the classroom, that means classroom teachers (and students) are without support.
- Reduced enrollment has always meant reduced funding. The threat now is that we may be losing federal money, but that's a different topic.
- Yes, students (and their families) are nervous about being deported. Two teachers I trust said they'd seen ICE vans in our area, and I've heard that some parents are keeping their children home from school. Their fear: They'll be taken /their children won't (or vice-versa), and I can understand that fear.
- Yes, staff is concerned -- not so much about this year because we already have our funding -- but about next year.
- Yes, staff morale is an issue. I've been in the public school system since the early 1990s, and money has always been an issue -- but in the last decade (give or take), the lack of respect and the increased workload have become unreal. Older teachers /those with golden handcuffs are staying, but younger teachers are leaving in droves. It's time for teachers to become a priority -- if not, we'll have no teachers left. Then what happens to the students?
There's nothing here!