an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

Dear Teachers, How are you feeling these days? What's going well? What's been hard? Let us know on our Padlet: bit.ly/anonteacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"It is taking every part of me not to break down and quit right now. I feel like I am failing the students. They deserve so much more than I can give them right now." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I feel like I am being asked to wear too many hats...and I am not properly trained for half of the hats I am being asked to wear." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I feel like I am dying with the amount of tasks I need to do. I cannot imagine doing this for years. My days are 10 hrs+ long. This was my dream job but I feel like a run a marathon each day." - an anonymous first-year teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I am SICK of administration completely ignoring me all year, then choosing to interrupt my protected planning time to tell me that I’m failing my students and not doing what’s best for them…. just because I won’t do a weekly standardized test." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"My school moves from mandatory masking to optional masking on Monday and I’m truly terrified. Masks felt like the last tiny barrier I had between myself and my students. I can’t risk bringing Covid home to my mother." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"Back off and let me do my job." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I started to list specific grievances but it'd actually make this so unreasonably long..." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"Our list of un-covered teacher absences is long this week. Lots of "covered within" and classes split up into other classes. I wish we could invite the superintendent and school board members in to cover." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I started saying no this year. No, I will not cover classes on my breaks. No, I am not going to use a scripted curriculum. I’ve been surprised, it’s not my administration, it’s my colleagues who have been the least supportive in my setting of boundaries." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I'm disgusted with the public education system now. I've always seen areas of failure, but I used to hold out hope that things could at least improve. But right now public education is failing to address every single student's needs. What is the point?" - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"I’ve had enough. I resigned and nobody said goodbye...They never found a replacement so my class was split amongst my grade-level team. They resented me for quitting. They should be resentful of admin, of this failing system that we call public education." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"The neverending carousel – every 3 weeks we are hiring a new teacher, every time we need a sub another teacher/staff has to fill in. Every time a parent emails questioning curriculum sleep deprivation sets in." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"This year is every dystopian novel I was forced to read in high school because they said it wouldn't happen here." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"Everyone says what I am feeling is normal but I find myself googling jobs with a teaching degree that aren't teaching." - an anonymous teacher

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an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks

4 years ago

"At this point, I feel like the “we’re for the kids” line is just an excuse to not be “for” anyone, especially not the teachers." - an anonymous teacher

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swm @sheathescholar

4 years ago

i'm looking to build a team of like 2-3 other folks to help me manage the @anonteachspeaks project (like 1-2 hours/week). you can be anonymous in your role. this is unpaid digital activism but sometimes people buy us coffee and so that's nice. DM me for details.