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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen, I’ll help you understand. Bridgets letter started with this:

“Even though we provided financial incentive, teachers were not willing to teach summer school.”

This is blame shifting. Translation:  “We tried!! Teachers just won’t do it!’ Be mad at them some more!”

A real leader would have said something like this;

Dear APS Parents and Staff,

As we approach the end of a long and difficult school year, we appreciate the effort everyone in the community has expended to ensure children had as successful a year as possible. Teachers and families have worked together tirelessly this year and we are immensely grateful for all you have done. APS endeavored to create a summer program for students needing additional academic support; however, as previously indicated, [b]the resources available to us were not sufficient to operate a program that could adequately serve the needs of the community[/b]. We regret to tell you that APS is unable to provide in person schooling this summer.”

Had she done that, the information would have been conveyed much more professionally and in a way that put the onus on APS and NOT on already drained teachers who are not obligated to teach summers for pennies. [/quote]

While a larger financial incentive may have helped, why do people think money is the only motivation for teachers to teach summer school?  Can you consider the possibility that teachers just need a freakin' break after living through a year and a half of a pandemic and restrictions and isolation - and after having to maneuver a year and a quarter of completely redefining and rearranging how they go about doing their job, amid constant and unrelenting public scrutiny?  That perhaps no amount of financial incentive would be enough and they just want the break that their particular chosen profession affords them?

Then parents would have been asking why there weren't sufficient resources, or what resources, and APS would have to say "teachers.  We didn't have enough teachers apply.  We don't have enough teachers interested in teaching this summer."  And we're back to the "teacher blaming."  [/quote]

But there weren’t sufficient resources. The silly little “bonus” or cheap hourly rate is NOT sufficient financial incentive for teachers. If you make $X an hour when your salary is broken down, why would you take on extra work to make HALF that for summer school? I’m asking you to consider this for yourself too. If your job asked you to work over the weekends, making half what you normally do, would you do it? Probably not. Because the rest you lose and the money you spend for someone to watch your kids does not balance out the pitiful wages they tossed at you to do it. The pay sucks. So no, the resources were clearly not there. [/quote][/quote]

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