Letter: Teachers need more assistance - The Columbian

It’s good known that teachers bash a batch for our students, but don’t get paid enough. Teachers assistance our children learn, people their enactment and measure their progress. Some teachers tutor students extracurricular of the schoolroom if they request other help. Yet they are not getting paid capable for their work.

Teachers these days are treated poorly. They are abused by parents and students and aren’t financially oregon emotionally compensated for their work. Teachers aren’t trained to grip emotionally disabled students; they are prepared to teach, not to beryllium caretakers. If teachers are required to beryllium caretakers, they should person grooming provided to them by the territory to assistance them, and they should get a raise.

If teachers don’t get a raise, the territory should supply the teachers with counselors oregon out-of-school therapists to woody with the demands of the classroom. Kids aren’t utilized to regular classrooms anymore, and the teachers bash truthful overmuch to effort and assistance them get utilized to the mean schoolroom setting. These things are precise taxing connected our teachers, truthful they not lone request a rise but merit it, and if not a raise, astatine slightest a harmless abstraction to speech astir their schoolroom problems.