By Dick Yarbrough
Dear Georgia’s Public Schoolteachers:
Congratulations. You have made it through another school year. Unfortunately, you won’t have much time to reflect on the year just passed since you will have to be back in the classroom in late July and ready to go again. Time flies when you are having fun.
Cut-and-run ideologues make job even more difficult for teachers
I am afraid that next year and the years to come are going to be difficult ones for you. Not because of anything you have done wrong. In fact, I don’t know how you manage to do what you do as well as you do it, given the meddling you endure from everyone from local administrators to the out-of-touch navel-gazing bureaucrats in Washington.
You come to school early and stay late and buy supplies out of your own pocket and deal with critics who couldn’t carry your bookbag. Still you soldier on because you are making a positive difference in young lives.
None of this seems to matter to some of our intrepid public servants in the Legislature. Their remedy for what ails our public schools is to cut and run from the problems you face in the classroom, such as poverty, drugs, gangs, abuse, transiency, single-parent or no-parent homes and a general lack of respect for authority. In the meantime, they blithely expect you to shut the door on those piddling problems and teach the periodic tables to a child who doesn’t know from where his next meal will come.
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You come to school early and stay late and buy supplies out of your own pocket and deal with critics who couldn’t carry your bookbag. Still you soldier on because you are making a positive difference in young lives.
None of this seems to matter to some of our intrepid public servants in the Legislature. Their remedy for what ails our public schools is to cut and run from the problems you face in the classroom, such as poverty, drugs, gangs, abuse, transiency, single-parent or no-parent homes and a general lack of respect for authority. In the meantime, they blithely expect you to shut the door on those piddling problems and teach the periodic tables to a child who doesn’t know from where his next meal will come.
To read the complete column pick up a copy of The Baxley News-Banner on newsstands now or CLICK HERE to subscribe today!
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