One thing we can do to help is to support the Illinois "Fair Tax" referendum. Does this mean that only some of our children deserve to have them? How are teachers supposed to effectively educate students remotely when some may not even have a device to get on the internet? Not everyone has the means to move to the suburbs and enjoy these necessities that, to others, seem like luxuries. I have friends who teach in CPS the district is not providing laptops and hot spots to their students. But there are many, many teachers who are nowhere near this situation. This makes it astronomically easier for me to educate all my students. We have the ability to only be a 1:1 school that provides a Chromebook to each student, but we are even able to provide an internet hot spot for students with limited access during remote instruction in the midst of a global pandemic. Our English department provides novels for students to keep, not borrow, for class. We have a new, cutting-edge learning management system. As a teacher who works in a well-funded suburban district in Illinois, I always joke with my CPS teacher friends that they should join the dark side and "come to the suburbs." My situation as a teacher is better than most.
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