Teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas survived the horrific mass shooting in May, but now find themselves in another unenviable—but all too common—position: asking for donations buy school supplies.
. Classes, which start again on August 15, will be held for now at other schools in the area as Robb Elementary is torn down and replaced by a memorial.“My name is Jennieka Rodriguez and I am heading into my fourth year of teaching and we will be transitioning from Robb to Flores temporarily,”
“Then also, the condition of the rooms—we were told it would be better for us not to go in there and have to revisit all of that, so they’re being packed up by other staff and transferred to our [temporary] campus,” said the teacher, who asked not to be identified by name so as to avoid confrontation with school administrators. “I spent all this money getting things ready for [last year], got a small library going, I bought current, relevant reading material for them.
“We are asked to do so much, and… what the district supplies doesn’t exactly fulfill that,” the teacher continued. “It is very frustrating for teachers in this day and age… The amount of effort and work I put into this, I could be making thousands of dollars more somewhere else. But this is my passion, my calling.”
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