To the Editor,
Some pundits would have you believe that teachers are asking for the moon or even the galaxy, suggesting that B.C. teachers are out of touch with reality.
I am a kindergarten teacher and I wonder, is it ‘asking for the moon’ when I ask that my employer provide a dollhouse for my classroom?
That my employer provide the cars and the car mat for my students to play with, the dolls and dress ups, a water table, beginner reader books for my home reading program, enough balls for me to teach a P.E. lesson?
I teach in a middle class school and I have to provide these items (and many more) for my students or they will have to do without.
Perhaps it is time for a new ‘occupy movement’, one that has reporters coming out to schools and ‘occupying some time’ with teachers like myself.
Such a movement might just put those that report news more ‘in touch’ with what is actually going on in B.C. public schools.
Wendy deGroot
Nanaimo