Famous last words

Admin thinking we will just find solutions if they ignore our concerns.

Parents blaming me for everything in a very traumatic manner. For instance, a kid gets hurt by accident (say by falling on the walk across the pavement to the playground), that must mean I'm an abuser, and I am threatened with being reported to the state. I have been accused of not letting a child go to the bathroom for six hours (we go as a class every two hours with witnesses). I could go on for days of how I am accused wrongfully of literal abuse on a weekly basis and threatened with legal consequences for "my actions". Imagine being told that every week?

That makes sense. The cost of living is decreasing. /s

And I assume if the kids lose the special, the teachers lose their prep.

Exactly this.

Same with my husband. I work in daycare so it's less at home, but it's a forty-five hour week with screaming kids. So it's a trade off from hell.

Teachers in NJ absolutely get paid well, but not well enough for what we are expected to do. I do almost the work of two teachers, but I'm not being paid as such. How many teachers are taking on extra responsibilities without a resulting increase in pay? How many younger teachers are propping up older teachers in technology without even an acknowledgment? Things aren't the same as they even were five years ago with the amount of extra, unseen work heaping on us.