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I'm just going to be a straight shooter.

You're an idiot.

Teachers in high-FARMs schools DO know their students, especially in the elementary setting, as they have them for the majority of the day. Teachers know about wellness programs and social networks to help needy families.  Teachers know when to call CPS, when to alert the PPW to make a home visit, when to contact a counselor, and when to simply call the language line to make a phone call home.

But when is enough enough?  Many teachers have families and ALL teachers have lives beyond the school day.  When people like you INSERT yourself w/o fully understanding the complexities of a high-needs school, you create more harm than good. As it stands now, we CANNOT recruit enough teachers and we CAN'T RETAIN them either.  And you, hon, are part of the problem b/c you want us to do more and more and more.

So step away and make yourself feel important elsewhere.  Instead of slamming the PTA, if you're so giving, join and make some changes.  But I think you'd rather talk than act.

- HS teacher who's only taught in high-FARMs schols

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Your the idiot. I can tell you at our high farms school the teachers don't know anything about the families and ignore the problems.  I did join the PTA, got involved, and got completely blown off.  As did many others.  Now our PTA is having huge issues because they shut people out but the same people keep running it and ran it into the ground.

PS.  I am that social worker who is the one you call.    I am the one bringing the kids food, clothing and trying to find the funds or access their insurance to get them the evaluation and services they need.  I can also tell you our school has no idea I am a social worker nor would care.

So, HON, you can rant about what others don't do, but some of us are too busy trying to fix the problems you teachers have ignored for years.  Its very easy to make a hotline phone call and say how wonderful you are for doing it.  Its another story, when you are the one actually fixing it.   I cannot tell you how many acting out teenagers I've had on my caseload who can barely read and write, major mental health issues, drug use, that has gotten ignored for years.  No one has even given these kids a basic evaluation and ignore their failing test and report cards.

You have the easy job.. if a kid tells you they are going to kill themselves, you can hotline it or call the parents and wash your hands of it.  I'm the one convincing the kids to get a mental health evaluation or be hospitalized and taking them to their appointments weekly and finding the money for their medication co-pays.[/quote]

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