Jill Renee

Mama 💙💙💗 Wife 💍 Teacher 👩🏼‍🏫

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

Dear @Instacart - please stop rescheduling my pick up orders for the next day AFTER my current pick up time. Stop refusing to offer customer service and solutions. Stop apologizing for the inconvenience and actually help. At the very least, tell me sooner so I can make a new plan

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@GiftedTawk I’m about to, my oldest will be in kinder at my school next year. I’m excited about it! I’ll never be his teacher & I have great relationships with coworkers so it’ll be great. Biggest upside, as a working mom, I’ll never have to miss things they do at school!

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

One of the biggest education myths that politicians and news pundits continue to push is that educators wanted to remain virtual/remote because it was easy and we are lazy.

Virtual teaching was the toughest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

The “just teach” crowd has no idea what teachers actually do, because, if they did, they would know that schools would not be able to function if all teachers did was just teach.

[NEA @NEAToday]

If your solution to the educator shortage is to “remove or relax barriers to entry” and not pay teachers more and given them more respect, you're not really solving the problem.

Don't take our word for it. Listen to the research. https://t.co/CnRbPIKtk7

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

I know what I pay our (high school aged) babysitters hourly for two kids…

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

When you say “teachers should be paid like babysitters” but aren’t smart enough to do the math first…🤔

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

The focus should have always been about how to keep teachers instead of how to replace them.

Replacing them won't matter much if we can't keep them.

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

PSA: 📣

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@DrBradJohnson Unless you don’t have any. In IL, teachers who lost sick days due their own kids’ Covid quarantines can get their sick days back…but only if their kids are 5-17. Those of us with kids under 5 are SOL. It makes no sense.

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@NEAToday Worrying about a lack of sick days after I lost a ton due to Covid quarantines & cant get them back because my kids are younger than 5… days I’d been saving for my upcoming maternity leave.

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

Teachers shouldn't have to write off school supplies because they shouldn't have to buy school supplies in the first place.

Teachers are employees, not business owners.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Dear Companies,

Please, please, please hold off on your “back to school” campaigns and advertisements until August. We desperately need a few weeks to NOT think of anything school related, especially after this past year.

-Mentally Exhausted and Emotionally Drained Teachers

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@JBPritzker When you exclude teachers who are parents of children in daycare/preschool from HB 1167, teachers are NOT being supported. You’re not doing more to ensure anything. Please go back & fix this if you really want to support teachers and schools. Our kids are part of “every kid” too.

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@JBPritzker So then why are you making it harder for women with young children to continue to work by excluding them in HB 1167?

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@Kim_Christenson As soon as they can play together, that 20 month age difference gets awesome! 4 & 2.5 is pretty great too because they’re closer to the same size.

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@jyangrohr Why does this bill leave out teachers with children in preschool/daycare and is apparently not retroactive to 2020-2021, despite the governor saying it is? It doesn’t make a difference for educators if so many are excluded.

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@jyangrohr You championed HB 1167 - can you tell me why it leaves out teachers with children in daycare/preschool and, apparently, is not actually retroactive to 2020-2021, despite @GovPritzker saying otherwise to the media?

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@JBPritzker As you wrote HB 1167 too narrowly, despite announcing otherwise to media, I can’t get any of the many sick days I lost to Covid-19 back 1) b/c some were used last school year (despite you saying this was covered) & 2) the rest were my daycare-aged kids’ quarantines

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@GovPritzker - you said HB 1167 included last school year (2020-2021) too. Why am I now hearing otherwise - that it may only include this year? Please clarify and explain.

[Jill Renee @JRenee589]

@GovPritzker Great. Can you then please show your appreciation by fixing HB 1167 to include teachers with kids in preschool/daycare?