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EELS: "Are We Alright Again" (A: Maybe Not)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷11/15/2020 5:57:14 pm PST

Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald

Educators in Nebraska and elsewhere are struggling against burnout, fear and exhaustion at a time when schools can ill afford to lose any staff.

“They’re exhausted, and they feel abandoned,” said Tim Royers, president of the Millard Education Association.

Teachers said they feel overwhelmed and overworked, especially where they have been asked to simultaneously teach both students learning remotely and those sitting in their classrooms.

Teaching both is like doing “two jobs for the price of one,” one teacher said.

While school leaders praise teachers for their efforts, the teacher said it’s like “high-fiving us while we’re drowning.”

Teachers who spoke to The World-Herald about their experiences in the classroom said they feared retribution if their names were published (my emphasis).

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Gov. Ricketts busy trying to burn out educators in “government schools.”

Nebraska teachers say they’re exhausted, stressed after months of teaching in the pandemic