Thanking our teachers

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Thank you to the teachers, who have done so much for us this year! We wanted to highlight these monumental tasks that teachers have taken on:

  • They’ve worn incredible amounts of PPE to keep our kids and themselves safe. PPE that makes it hard for them to be heard, for them to breathe, for them to stay at comfortable temperatures. PPE that leaves them sweaty and with headaches and marks in their faces.

  • They’ve adapted to the new rules of the pandemic even if that means completely changing their teaching style:
    - imagine classes in primary with no singing? No sitting on the carpet in circles and sharing toys and playing games together?
    - imagine having to teach what you usually teach at 2 or 3 times the pace without being able to encourage group work?
    - Imagine how much time is spent in managing COVID protocols and bathroom breaks and keeping cohorts apart?

  • They adapted and went online, where regular schoolwork just doesn’t work the same way. Where the little ones don’t know how to use the tech and teachers have to spend half the time trying to get them to push the right buttons and stay off mute; to the older kids who won’t ever turn on their cameras and might actually be sleeping while “in class.”

  • They have had to come up with unique ways to make online schooling “fun,” including activities for gym class and science class.

  • They have taught online, while knowing that their own kids are in another room, dealing with their own challenges with virtual learning.

  • They’re spending so much money out of pocket, for extra teaching tools that work online, tools that work when they can’t do group work, and some have even bought portable speakers so that the kids can hear them more clearly without them shouting through all the PPE.

  • They have done ALL of this, only to go home at night and tend to their own children and families, who are also coping with the significant changes that have come with this pandemic.

We see you and all your hard work and appreciate how much you’re putting into teaching our kids in such difficult times.