I’ve been seeing the chatter online over the #SunshineList and the complaints about there being too many teachers on it. The one thing I feel people are missing in this conversation is the way our current society is set up for people of middle to lower class to fight each other over who deserves what I’m order to distract us from the fact that there are extremely wealthy people getting even wealthier by exploiting the hard work of others. I hear all the time that I, as a teacher, don’t deserve what I make because other people work harder

Today’s #onted press conference today broke me. I give all that I can give to my students day in, day out. Ever since this pandemic began, I put my own stress and worry aside and focused on giving my students the best I could. In school, online, both simultaneously, I gave my all I put on my brave face, smiled, and told them we’d get through it. I worked hard to make my classes as fun and engaging as possible. And I did it because I KNOW how hard this is for them. I KNOW they belong in the classroom. So do I - and I WANT to be there.