an anonymous teacher speaks

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[an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks]

Dear Teachers:

You are seen, loved, and appreciated. This space is for you.

If you’re submitting via DM, please keep your submission to tweet length. Longer submissions are welcome on our Padlet board (best accessed via computer).

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[an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks]

Dear Teachers,

How are you feeling these days? What's going well? What's been hard? Let us know on our Padlet: https://t.co/6V8tXv9NMB

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Back off and let me do my job."

- an anonymous teacher

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

- an anonymous teacher

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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

[an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks]

also, we have a website now! if you want to read last year's archive or contact us, you can visit: https://t.co/opEQZqNYIi!

[an anonymous teacher speaks @anonteachspeaks]

WE'RE BACK! The sophomore year of An Anonymous Teacher Speaks has officially launched. This year's board is live and open for your submissions.

Remember: please keep submissions to one paragraph and remove all personal and/or identifiable info!

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[swm @sheathescholar]

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.

[Kalyn, Cactus of Rage @K_Dubs37]

@sheathescholar @anonteachspeaks I got this (very confused) pack of gum delivered to my classroom by our principal today.