Learning conditions are working conditions
Dear President-Elect Obama,
I will keep my advice short. While educator salaries are important, I believe improving working conditions are critical in retaining educators. Large class size, disrespectful, disruptive, lazy students, unsupportive parents and administrators and an overburden on paperwork related to test scores have a tremendous effect on causing educators to leave the classroom.
Our classes are too large and the demands placed on us are too great to be met. We cannot be the nurse, social worker, guidance counselor, secretary, teacher, chaperone, and teach parents to parent. And in addition do all the work that our administrators cannot or will not do.
Please make the necessary changes in education policies from NCLB to IDEA to lighten the burdensome paperwork requirements and remove the unfunded mandates from our schools. Then as the economy recovers, begin to fund public education by asking educators what we need to be successful.
Thank you for you and your family’s service to our country.
Sincerely,
Meg Gruber, Earth Science teacher
Prince William County Virginia
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