Hoping for a better year for our children… They have dealt with so much this past year…
Yet, I am not so sure it will be much better…
We are still dealing with residual issues from the past year, due largely from the consequences from the previous presidency…
This pandemic is not over! We have a new variant… And, we have citizens in our Country who are extremely resistant to follow the necessary protocols and the recommendation of getting vaccinated…
Thus, our children and schools will suffer from this divisive inaction!
The CDC is now recommending children twelve and older get vaccinated…All children, teachers, essential staff wear masks indoors…
Yet here in Florida and other Republican controlled states, not always follow the necessary guidelines…
And now Governor Ron DeSantis is preparing to sign an executive order that would keep schools from mandating students wear masks in schools;
And will withhold state funds from schools with mask mandates…
This comes after that CDC guidance recommendation … https://bit.ly/3rGUg0F
Once again our children…may experience consequential repercussions!
In addition to such restrictions, Florida and Republican controlled states are even dictating what children will learn in history…
Teachers; the professionals we are; and many parents; are extremely concerned…We know how dangerous this is!!!
We know children need to be able to get a foundation in truth… without bias, with a developmentally, appropriate curriculum…
This new year, we will now have a wonderful opportunity to get the much needed funding from the American Rescue Plan…The Biden-Harris Administration got passed!!!
Lifting many children out of poverty…
From my own teaching experiences working with children from poverty…I so realized that those children who came to school hungry were restless and inattentive…
Because our school district was concerned for our struggling families…. They made sure our schools in need had free breakfast and lunch programs; even throughout the summer…
In addition, our district made sure children had access to wifi during the pandemic…
Now with extra monies allocated by the American Rescue Plan more resources for struggling families will be available…going directly to parents in need and schools getting extra funding!!!
With the new child tax credit parents are now receiving, it could lift more than 5 million kids out of poverty and give families in need that extra boost!!!
This upcoming year may still be quite daunting…I pray that our Country do better for our children …
We now have a President, Vice President, Secretary of Education; an Administration that truly care… knowing to provide monetary resources we have so yearned for our children…
Now really it is up to all of us …
Please…Follow CDC guidelines…so we can manage the pandemic, and our children will be safe at school…
And the citizens of Florida…
Vote for a governor that represents our children and public schools… 💞🌈🙏🏼🍎🇺🇸
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 
Wonderful! Spot on. Our youth have few choices but to suffer the consequences of adults around them. I hope and pray they survive this pandemic and the stupidity of adults around them and make the world better when they are in charge.
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Thank you for your comment…
So hoping that we adults can put differences aside for our children…
They are going through so much…💞🌈🙏🏼🇺🇸
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