Over the weekend I received this email (well, all of our faculty received the email) from a fellow teacher --
"Be kind- not only to our students who now have to "catch up," but also to our teachers who have to do the "catching."
The last 2 weeks of the quarter I have 98 student absent days. Of my 48 students this quarter that amounts to approximately 2 days per student per week. The majority of these were not due to illness but to other programs "borrowing" my students from my class. We have to be better to our kids. How can we improve our math and reading scores? Keep our students in class.
Any comments?"
"Amen. I'm glad you spoke up. I agree one hundred percent. Carol and her crew always scream about test scores, but when are kids ever tested on hockey, choir, or any of the other myriad of things they miss for?
You rock!"
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