members speak
by Kenneth Poppe, science/math teacher in Fort Worth ISD
ATPE member
Kenneth Poppe
encourages
educators to stay
positive in the
classroom.
H
ow many emails do you get in an average workday?
Multiply that by 180, a typical number of service days
in an annual school year, and then by the number of
years you have worked. Waddya get? (I got 420,750
messages over my 45-year career!) Now, how many
of those specifc emails can you recall? If you are like
me, virtually none of them. We tend to quickly process each
message's information, type a reply if required, hit "send" ... and
wipe the mental slate clean. (Unless, like me, you have to resend
and say, "Oops. Forgot the attachment.")
However, I do remember two specifc emails. One was the
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