Last year schools all across the nation had to enforce cyber-bullying training throughout their districts. The additional required responsibility reporting a potential threat ties up hours for interviewing, documentation and meetings with parents and police. With the increase in responsibilities and the increase of unemployed teachers, it is evident that the magic wand is not big enough in our public school sector. And this is only a small fraction of the adversity it will face.
So what are some unemployed teachers doing in the wake of all these pink slips to gain control of their circumstances? They are transferring their already mastered skills for instructing to the varied learning styles and sharing their recently acquired skills working from home on-line to an older audience. The unemployed teachers are seeking opportunities and discovering new ways to support their families. Instead of teaching children to become life long learners, the former unemployed teachers are teaching entrepreneurial parents how to become life long earners serving our global community of children.
The technology that just a year before was part of the bullying problem which spilled over into their classroom, now becomes their safe haven for wealth creation and stability allowing them to work anywhere in the world since being unemployed.
Unemployed teachers are applying the same lessons they taught their former students in their own lives. They are learning new skills, trying their best no matter what the challenges are they are faced with. They are expressing their creativity, applying problem solving and leadership skills to no longer be unemployed teachers. Instead they are learning how to become
entrepreneurs and business owners, creating their own circumstances.
For our children, it is hard to know exactly how this will impact their school year. Communities must come together to support the educators that are in the schools teaching our future generation. This is going to be a problem that is truly going to "take a village" to find resolve depending on the resources available within the local communities. The cut backs on the federal and state level involving education across the nation leave districts with their hands tied. For our children's sake, I hope more philanthropists will step up to support our public school system.
