Dear Yuri,
This is a rant. It won’t make sense. I have no where else to vent as I need to be calm for everyone else.I’m angry. I’m so angry. Pushed to do more and more with less. I had to make a teacher redundant last week, when we desperately need more staff. Redundancy in schools. Heartbreaking.
We’re here to educate, but we’re also cleaners, social workers, food deliverers, friends – sometimes the most secure thing in a child’s day. But this is getting harder and harder as we’re given less and less. Shrouded by ‘Covid support fund’ headlines the harsh reality is we don’t have enough to do this properly. I saw a paid editorial in The Sun about education the other day. #ad with a smiling young, female teacher. A PAID PARTNERSHIP. Propaganda at its best.
Of course, we will rise to the occasion. Again and again. This job runs through my veins. But it’s NOT right. And the people missing out? The kids. Already named the ‘Covid generation’, written off before they’ve even started. But it doesn’t need to be that way. It’s shouldn’t be that way. Why can’t we invest in the most amazing chance we have for change? I know what will happen. Anger turns to sadness, sadness to acceptance and then we’re all spread too thinly to really invest in the children, but we will carry on anyway. Again and again.