Teachers

I’m not a teacher – but I know a few.  I know how dedicated they are to children and to the pursuit of a good education.   The ones I know, who have taught me and who I have befriended as an adult, are very hard working, and compassionate, and go way beyond the Call of Duty.    They are loving people.

Teachers do what they do without needing applause. They certainly don’t get paid tons of money, and sometimes they use their own money to buy items for the students.   Teachers are required to do ‘continual education’ themselves.

In recent years, teachers have been required to attend classes about how to handle an active shooter in the school.  They have to look out for unstable students, and keep straight which parent has custody rights, and more.

Now, today, our president has threatened to withhold federal funding to a school system that does not open on time this year, this strange, crazy, scary year of CoVid 19.   Our president in a 6 line tweet has added stress to already Very concerned teachers,  most who had to flip quickly to e-learning this past spring.    Our president is dangling needed money in front of school boards and administrators.   Without the money, schools will not have enough funding to run properly and to pay teachers.

Already our teachers and students have had to change, and adjust, and keep going – without being in the classrooms, and without some of the daily learning Structure.

Now this.

It is unbelievable to me that our top leader has the gaul to ‘nonchalantly’ toss out the threat of holding back money.

Everyone – teachers, Administrators, boards, students, parents, and everyone else – wants our country to offer the very best public school system possible.   It’s for all of our advantage.   Educated children will become adults that contribute.  School is  NOT just fun and games.

So….  hey.  How about a country–wide mandate that everyone wears masks in public?  We need to shut this virus down!   Require quarantining – with consequences when abused.    Bring it all on NOW!  If not, we will never keep our schools running.  We will get positively affected People – and spreading it through a building.

It’s not fair.   It’s  not humane – to know you can do something to stop the virus,  but just don’t feel like wearing masks and distancing.    Summer will be over and tough decisions will have to be made.  Our president once again showed his ignorance, and his lack of compassion, and his lack of seeing the whole picture.    His tweet today  effects millions of people.

Teachers:  I love what you do. I feel for you.    We NEED you!    I support you.   I pray for you.