tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post8832023453000981910..comments2023-12-19T16:54:31.953-05:00Comments on SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: That Crappy, Crappy FeelingPete Zuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-27560033369548499232016-08-28T12:03:31.581-04:002016-08-28T12:03:31.581-04:00I went through the same thing...I never inquired h...I went through the same thing...I never inquired how much my family would get if I ended it all but I came to my senses and just looked at my boys...the fucking DOE wasn't worth it and my boys needed me more... Santanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00118471577961723041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-3521058551551944892016-08-28T03:20:56.520-04:002016-08-28T03:20:56.520-04:00A teacher's work environment is a student'...A teacher's work environment is a student's learning environment. If our work place is a hostile environment what is that doing to our students? Kudos to you for having the courage to know that you are not the only one being treated this way. On a flight home from a conference in Washington DC last spring I wound up sitting next to a passenger who is the executive director of psychiatric services for a hospital. When I told him my story he asked me, "What keeps you going?" My reply . . . "No one should be treated the way that I was treated." "Since I know that others are being treated that way it is my responsibility to do everything I can to correct an injustice to educators and students."Keithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14618349146610091114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-21822481406961821942016-08-27T09:10:48.670-04:002016-08-27T09:10:48.670-04:00You are courageous. I have hit a lot of lows mysel...You are courageous. I have hit a lot of lows myself. It is challenging to consume a diet of almost constant criticism. I keep asking myself if I am not considered competent in my area of expertise, then what am I good at washing dishes or perusing clearance racks at Macy's? The process is beyond humiliating. Thanks so much for your brutal honesty.<br /><br />Abigail ShureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-66859462866039692652016-08-26T23:07:12.499-04:002016-08-26T23:07:12.499-04:00Thank you for sharing. Thank you for helping feel ...Thank you for sharing. Thank you for helping feel a little less lonely and less fearful for the future as a teacher in the DOE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-4109861029270460652016-08-26T22:04:56.555-04:002016-08-26T22:04:56.555-04:00We need you. A dear friend of yours just shared th...We need you. A dear friend of yours just shared this with a bunch of other teachers who know deepshit up close and personal, everywhere from the hinterlands if NY state, the steamy cities in south FL, the city of Brotherly Love, me here in southern CA ... and on.<br /><br />After my successful lawsuit against my now-former employer (we settled, it's online so..,) with the nation's largest regional education agency, I went thru a period of deepshit despair - for I no longer had to stuff the feelings. They just oozed and oozed. Depression? HA! That was on the good days.<br /><br />We need people like you, like me... to not only speak out on the horrors of bullying but what damage that does to one's psyche. It's only when people begin to realize that injustices HURT in real ways... people 'get' that "mental illness" is really, REALLY emotional injury, no less real than a gunshot wound ur a car accident. <br /><br />Please connect with me. I've just completed seven weeks of specialized training in becoming a peer professional - one who connects and so much more via "lived experience". Perhaps you can help other teachers "come out of the attic" about the emotional costs of bullying. Peer support (the kind you did today, here) is an evidence based practice that helps others. <br /><br />There are kids with depression too. If teachers fear retaliation or shaming by divulging they have depression, how the f&ck are kids gonna learn how to deal with theirs? And yo, all you admin's and superintendents and BoE members... how many in your shoes have lived through harrowing despair? How many fear shaming if they talk about it? How many are now dead from it?<br /><br />Thank you... You were Honest. Open. Proud. <br /><br />Literally! Go read about that program. It's how people begin to talk about "mental illness".<br /><br />You proved here that one can not only be HONEST and OPEN. But PROUD.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949995694847235622noreply@blogger.com