Emotions of a Parent

The teachers strike at the Edison School district is stressful for everybody. So far everything has revolved around the teachers and the school board administration. So I am going to give you a break on the teachers and school board and give you a small glimpse into how one parent feels.

I haven't been able to sleep much since all this talk of a strike began and I am up and down most nights hoping like everyone that when I turn my TV on that I will hear that Edison teachers were asked to the table to settle the strike! I am not a teacher but a parent who has been able to stay home and volunteer in the schools. I want parents to know that even though it has only been one day that EVERYTHING we do to support the teachers and one another is appreciated! I read were someone was going to take hot chocolate to the teachers at Stanton. Great idea!! It was so cold at Gregg and Springfield and I only got there at 10am by 12pm I was ready for a nice hot drink and I am not a coffee drinker! Someone else said hand warmers! Also a great idea! I had THICK gloves on and my hands were froze in a matter of hours! The biggest to the smallest thing is appreciated even blowing the horn when you pass them by the schools in support is wonderful!

I hope that more parents and caregivers show up at the schools today and see first hand exactly what is going on! I will not lie to you it is not a TEA PARTY. I said before NO STRIKE is a pretty strike. These teachers are out here because their way of living is on the line. Please Please Please UNITE together! All it would take is for EDISON to UNITE for one day and that would get the message across that this is "OUR" district with "OUR" kids and we want this strike settled and we want it settled yesterday!!! Together we can as a community makes a difference! These students are so worth it. I can only tell you that I am suppose to do Ohio Reads today and I cried like a baby because the kids, (Mrs. Robsons) class in particular give the best hugs. Un-conditional love I like to call it that only a kid can give. I heard so many stories about the kids and how they have touched each teacher yesterday just walking in a circle and not one teacher didn't refer to them as NOTHING but "our" kids in there or "our" babies in there. I know just by those words alone in the tears in their eyes and mine when the bus pulled away with "our" kids, "their" kids faces pressed against the glass of the school bus it was so touching and so sad all at the same time. The teachers don't want to be holding picket signs at 5am. I as a parent don't want to be standing there in the cold for hours (even though I am proud to say we did keep a guy with Illinois plates away who work for the security company IMAC away!) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to the schools and check out the building and the re-placement teachers who are in your child's building! I will not send my child Monday or the following Monday with the people I do not know. Who are not your neighbors? Trust me I saw some of them! Please don't send your child in before you check it out and the school HAS to give you ALL the Subs names and how they check out! If they do. IMAC seems to have let some people slip through the crack with criminal checks who work as their security and those security people are walking around INSIDE the building where the students are as well! May God bless us all and I pray the end of the strike is near. My children I couldn't imagine living one single day without and I know that people who have never spoke to me before let alone don't live within 100 miles of me are going to treat my kids the same way "our" teachers who are also in our community would. Remember most of them have children too! Please if anything is on the news today and it scares you and you have a car come to your child's school and check it out! Don't fill this site full of speculation on what may or may not have happened! Bus drivers will be yelled at if they cross, I am certain that other personnel will be! The teachers know if we as parents don't support them then there out there for nothing and I for one think that is what this board and administration is counting on!!! Thank you and God Bless the kids most of all!!