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Shellback Squid

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1. she's a single mother with a husband?

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2022, 10:32 AM

Sep 2022

I believe her workload is unmanageable but the statements below contradict:

“I had to get out immediately for everyone’s good. For, for my students, for myself, for my kids, my husband, I had to make a selfish choice for once,” she said.

and the next

"The demands became unmanageable for Fox, who as a single mother with a Master’s degree, struggled to pay bills on her $3,000 a month salary"

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Teacher quits mid-semester and calls for change [View all] Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 OP

she's a single mother with a husband? Shellback Squid Sep 2022 #1

That didn't make sense to me either Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 #2

My only surprise is that there is not more of this. Demands on teachers only get more unreasonable dutch777 Sep 2022 #3

I had 42 kids in my class from 1974-1983 from k-8 jimfields33 Sep 2022 #4