The school year 2015-2016 has begun…And I am “not teaching”…
I have such mixed feelings about this… “How I love the children”…I had hoped the rhetoric about “children and their right to a strong education” would have come to reality by now, after my forty plus years… But sadly this is definitely not so…
In my teaching experience, children from diversity and impoverished homes…. these last eight years of my career I have observed they are “Our” forgotten…
How my children so wanted to learn, but because of overcrowded class size, fewer support personnel; and moreover unrealistic, developmentally inaproppriate curriculum with too much testing… I felt quite frustrated and even anger…
Our children, our Future deserve so much more…
This beginning school year, I had to visit my “school” to volunteer and check on my “children”, as I promised…
Well, I observed that our school is tackling more demanding challenges; Higher numbers of children because of school closings, not enough personnel to handle the demand, and more expectations…
So this will continue; Until our Government answers…But will they ever listen?…
And I will always speak out! Until..
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 