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Opportunities for kids and funding. Kids in bigger town have more places to go after school and more opportunities for field trips and experiences.
A large number of preps and no one to plan with
We do not really have speciality teachers. So, we teach art, music, PE, and recess/lunch duty. That makes it hard to get prep time, but you learn to be creative in finding that time. We also have to clean and vacuum our own rooms:(
Our district is 52 percent Hispanic. Other districts don't understand the delay in learning when they speak Spanish qt home.
I teach at a rural school in southern Illinois. People don’t realize how laws and regulations are created for schools in larger towns- like Chicago. It’s also harder to change things here. It’s so conservative and people have been doing things the same for years. What seem like small, positive changes for a school or club, could upset older community members who view their old school so highly
I get so tired of the phrase ‘we have always done it this way’.