... and rethinking how to keep the Photography program strong with a bare bones budget. The students want more - and absolutely deserve more - but we will have to do with less. Honestly, I do not see how the class can be successful with 30 students. That is just the truth. I will do my damnedest to make it work, but it will be hard. The students need so much, and then throw those who do not pay attention, fool around, fall behind, etc. into the mix and I foresee disaster. But I will try my best.
I do believe the public school system is being set up to fail. There are many for-profit school businesses out there in the US. I have read about them - and not in union publications. I have yet to read about one that works. The students get poor resources, the teachers are paid poorly and the only people making the money are the CEO's and the supply companies they contract with.
So now I spend all my time going through books and websites finding processes to do that can use found/donated materials. My sister's Art Department head is gone at the end of the year. She is pregnant. My sister and her husband are not safe either and they have a baby on the way. They will be leaving New Jersey if they lose their jobs. I am second from the top in the art dept but I have to worry about hubby - state social worker. I already looked at houses online in other states...
Does anyone get what I am saying here? Fire the teachers and we will not sit home and collect unemployment. We chose this profession because we are driven to teach. And we will. We will take our households, business dollars and income & property taxes to another state to continue to follow our calling... My certificate is reciprocal in states I would much rather live in anyway...
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