The time has come. Infamous state budget cuts are taking their toll all across the United States as many teachers have packed up their classrooms for the very last time. It’s a sad result for the students who now face more crowded classrooms and a lower standard of education for next year, if only due to decreased staff numbers.
As any teacher will tell you, the ability to focus effectively on each and every student in a classroom of 25 plus children is extremely difficult. Students who need more attention, those with behavior or learning deficiencies often require more one on one time than those students that make the grade and don’t act out, but every child in a classroom needs one on one help at some point.
Even those classrooms with full-time teacher’s aids can be found to be short-staffed, and that was before faculty cuts.
So, what are parents to do, since the ax has already fallen despite the rallies and uproar against it? The time has come to speak out – not only to the local school board, not only to your representative on Capitol Hill, but to each other, to your child’s teacher to your principal and your school district superintendent. The time has come for communities to take responsibility and pride in their local school.
If your school is one of the thousands facing administration and faculty cuts for the 2010-2011 school year, then action needs to be taken now to support the remainder of your school teachers with classroom volunteering, donations toward school supplies or after school involvement that will help ease the burden placed on those teachers that were lucky enough to maintain their current teaching positions.
Out teachers need our help, our support and our understanding as they face a much more difficult school year than normal. Stay involved with your child’s school work, be sure that homework is done and checked, ask if they need your help and communicate with their teacher as often as necessary to eradicate as many potential classroom stresses as possible. With parents’ support, our teachers will be able to focus more effectively on their jobs, and our kids will reap the most from their education as possible.
Posted By: Paul Adams
Wednesday, June 16th 2010 at 12:36PM
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