I write everything but book reviews, usually not but I am a second grade teacher who recently went back to school and I have some opinions on some recent events of the teacher.
Within the last month I have the privilege of attending two different "teacher appreciation" events. The first one I attended was at Office Depot. They had a nice, free continental breakfast spread for us, as well as some local suppliers sponsors give-aways. Each teacher will receive a nice bag not filled, but including some teachers appreciate goodies. I would say the best item for me in the bag was a gift card of Chick-Fil A for three different breakfast – one for the month of August, a September, and one for October. We also receive a coupon for 25 free copies of the copy machine.
Then a week later I went to the teacher appreciation of staples. We receive an empty bag and a 20% off coupon. I have to say that the bag be blank when the local manager had not put in a few goodies for us would have been. The head office is only delivered the bag and coupon. What a disappointment. Staples is usually my favorite, in fact, a few years ago, they gave each teacher a jet drive for our computer – very practical and necessary by teachers. I think all this is a sign of the times, the finances and the lack of what for teachers.
Believe it or not, it is the task increasingly difficult. We need to do much more with much less. This year we have (as second grade teachers) 31 students in our class with absolutely no help. The help I thought we were getting is only an hour from 2-3 on Friday afternoon (which is really no help because the children by this time done). We received a new grade level printer last year only to have it replaced again when we were out this summer with our old broken down (we had before we got new). It breaks often and is very frustrating. Still, we are expected to use technology. Each of us doing the work of two people, and we must educate proficiently converts 31 young children-even if some use significantly below grade level test. Luckily, I have some parents who want to help.
Don't get me wrong I love children and I love teaching, but the conditions are making it more difficult and less fun.
Anyway, a little encouragement goes a long ways. Thank you Office Depot and Staples for recognition from us.
A teacher's Musings-Office Depot vs. Staples and more ...This entry was posted on Thursday, September 5th, 2013 at 9: 04This post was written bySally and is filed under all about us, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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