Phyllis Fagell
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first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
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struggled with depression and all of the same stressors everyone else was dealing with during the pandemic.
And now they're coming back and there's this unsteadiness in many parts of the country where they're not sure if their colleagues who were their friends are still their friends, just like the kids feel.
Maybe they had a bad interaction with an administrator along the way and so they feel uncomfortable about that.
Maybe they wonder if the parents think that they're lazy or are angry at them.
So I think the teachers and the parents can repair the relationship the same way we talk about helping kids, which is by nurturing one another, by being reassuring, by setting those reasonable expectations, by showing appreciation and making sure everyone feels seen and nurtured and valued.
And
then it's going to take a long time, I think, to repair that damage.
I say this as a mother whose kids were virtual too.
It's just something that was a really hard stretch of time for everybody.
And coming back to normal is going to be that same ramping up process as it is for the kids.
And I think teachers can do a lot, too, to repair the relationship with parents, whether that has to do with really close communication, being reassuring about how their child is doing, offering parent education or opportunities to meet administrators or to come see the classroom, if that's something that's possible.
One of the other ways that there is that disconnection, even in schools that were in person, a lot of times parents weren't allowed in as volunteers.
in the way they had been in the past.
And when you don't know what's going on, when you don't feel connected and parents feel less connected to one another, that also can heighten that sense of isolation.
So I think parents can help teachers.
It doesn't necessarily follow...
make as much sense as it does in my head right now, but to connect with one another, for parents to make a point of whether they do book clubs and talk about issues, have opportunities to normalize that everybody's kid is not doing so great, or maybe everybody's kid is making progress.
at the same pace, because kids are going to bounce back faster than adults.
One of the things I love about kids and that I often reassure parents about is that no matter how awful your kid is doing, no matter where they are, they can recover remarkably quickly.
So it can seem like
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