Educators do everything for their students, including opening schools when there is no electricity, etc. We salute you!
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I wonder what goes through their minds as they pledge allegiance to the United States every morning.
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Kids give me hope. It’s terrible that they have to face this, but their resilience is inspiring.
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"Each school building had to be inspected by the Army Corps of Engineers and had to have working water before it could reopen. They had to be repaired, disinfected, and scrubbed of mud, mold and rat droppings; much of that work was done by determined teachers."
In the mean time, 45 is busy trolling Gold Star families, insulting well-loved Congresswomen, stoking fires within his own party, and trying to ruin healthcare.
I will be glad when we are finished being great so we can go back to "normal."
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On the other hand, there is a sudden increase of students from PR in many schools in the northeast and Florida, which is overwhelming those districts.
Also there are teachers who have fled the island. Many of these schools want to hire some of these teachers too. Which is ok as long as classes are taught in English. If people desire Spanish speaking only instruction then they must go to a private school. We can't have 'special' classes. It takes away large amounts of funding for the regular curriculum. Increasingly, the regular student's educations are being short changed. And local teachers are not being hired because they don't speak Spanish, Portuguese or whatever.
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What is your source stating that Florida schools are being flooded by Puerto Rican teachers who are limited to speaking "Spanish, Portuguese or whatever" and that local teachers are not getting hired. If you have credible sources, then your information isn't fake news, and I'm interested.
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The PR population on the mainland is very small in comparison to other Spanish speaking groups. Most PR citizens are also bilingual. I wouldn't say they expect their children to learn in Spanish when they come to the mainland.
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Can we think about the well being of these displaced children? In the long run, the others will benefit from their being there.
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The Trump Administration says climate change is a hoax.
Then they demonstrate how fundamentally ill-prepared
they are to protect people from the least of its affects.
Warmer water equals more powerful storms.
Lack of leadership and compassion equals Puerto Rico.
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"The teachers are the heroes here."
Belying claims that Puerto Ricans expect everything to be done for them, we have teachers working to get their schools open. I doubt any of them ever envisioned themselves scrubbing and disinfecting classrooms to remove mold and rat droppings, or teaching in the dark and in the heat without lights or air conditioning. And teachers are doing what we always do, teaching our subjects, even if conditions are difficult, and helping our students cope when tragedy strikes.
And meanwhile our president gives himself an A+. I wonder what grade the teachers in Puerto Rico give him?
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Obviously an F-.
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Trump's comment was both insulting and ridiculous and shows how little he understands of the degree and the scope of the disaster. No government on Earth could have managed this alone.
Most communities had to clear their neighborhoods streets by themselves. In my case, we live at the end of a country road where there are only three houses. We worked for three straight days cutting fallen trees and clearing a small landslide with shovels, just to be able to access the main road. No one from the local or state or federal government has even visited the area and that was a month ago.
My brother went to the main street and there was a group of local residents clearing that road with whatever they had on hand, many cutting trees with machetes instead of chainsaws. My brother joined. This happened all over the island. The debris has not been collected and in many roads there is space for only one car at a time.
I started working the first Monday after the hurricane struck, driving through debris, under electric posts and among a network of cabling that is still hanging everywhere. Life goes on. I regret that so does Trump.
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Teachers = HEROES
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Schools in New Orleans were closed all year after hurricane Katrina.
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So? what's your point?
the neglect by Trump's administration should be criminal. it's disgusting, these are American citizens
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