For Ally Seago, a mom and teacher, packing up her classroom before the year is truly over feels like a punch to the gut. After taking a photo of herself on a timer while cleaning up, she discovered that her phone took extra photos — including the one above. She then shared her feelings in an emotional Facebook post about just"A teacher somewhere is packing up their classroom right now, mourning the class they never got to see to the end. The class they won't get to see graduate.
"This hasn't been easy. Lives have been immeasurably disrupted," she explained."Teachers have had to switch gears andand implement lessons in ways they've never had to before. Oftentimes spending more hours than they would in a normal workday. Heightened sadness, staggering stress, disenfranchised grief."
"Packing up a classroom before the year is complete, feels alien. It is sad, it is frustrating, and it is hard."While in the middle of cleaning out her student-free classroom, she couldn't help but be overtaken by emotion."Stepping into these classrooms is overwhelming," she wrote."It's as if it was frozen in time. Weeks and months gone unchanged. Calendars still set on March, preparing for Spring Break.
Although Ally knows how hard social distancing has been for parents, she wants to remind families that teachers are just as upset about the school year as they are."As difficult as this is for you, know that teachers are grieving. They chose this profession because they love education and they love children," Ally wrote."They're dealing with a lot of adjustment and stress themselves. Packing up a classroom before the year is complete, feels alien.
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