Dear Readers,
When school budgets are cut, it causes stress on students as well as teachers because it creates a negative classroom environment according to a new study from The Wall Street Journal. According to the article over 10,000 first graders whose teachers are fatigued and short on materials and supplies will show more signs of stress. If the teacher feels disrespected in the classroom or by co-workers, the teacher also has more behavioral and emotional problems. The study attributes the additional tension and frustration from teachers to be because of the lack of resources or because of "dilapidated surroundings and insufficient materials symbolically devalue children in those spaces."
Stress in any form is not healthy for teacher, parent or child.
http://blogs.edweek.org
