Code Blue! Many Schools Are In Trouble
It’s time for resuscitation efforts to be activated
Introduction
Several schools throughout the United States were confronted with unspeakable challenges day after day and school year after school year long before the pandemic poured devastation upon humanity. Things like under-funding, the achievement gap, student disciplinary concerns, low levels of parent involvement and participation, school safety, poor recruitment efforts that failed to attract the most qualified as well as diverse educators, staff shortages due to financial constraints represent some of the ongoing struggles teachers and school leaders always dealt with. There was no relief.
Sadly, the pandemic has complicated these and many other educational issues.
As a former teacher and school administrator, I examine two of these educational problems because I believe they are of critical concern. After all, they are interrelated.
