This year is especially hard for teachers. Some students have been out for 1.5 years and have forgotten how to act. Yes, there is some learning loss but that’s not the difficult part, it’s behaviors. To add to the normal stresses, this week there were two incidents of other people speaking negative about us. One was at the high school in a class, Aubree’s friend told her that their teacher spent the first few minutes of class complaining to the class about our teaching style and unwillingness to help students. It shouldn’t have been said period and it makes me sad that my children hear others speak ill of us. Another instance Friday, a substitute teacher told the class that Jake and I mistreated her brother with autism, mind you she was subbing for a member of our team so our 8th graders are hearing this- that’s going to help this year with relationships. I just don’t understand why anyone would speak negatives about others to students period. It makes it harder.
On a different note, last weekend we were able to go assist with hurricane Ida clean up. We took Will along with us and hope it was a good experience for him to learn to serve and see some of the impact.
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