Teacher quits mid-semester and calls for change [View all]
NASHVILLE, Tenn-- She quit her teaching job in the middle of the semester, and now she’s calling for change.
It wasn’t an easy decision for Camille Fox, a former second grade teacher. She reached her breaking point just two weeks ago.
“I reached a point where I could not take another step forward into the piles of paper. And that’s the way I felt. I refused to step into this mountain of work another day,” said Fox.
After seven years in the profession, she walked out on a Friday and didn’t come back.
“I had to get out immediately for everyone’s good. For, for my students, for myself, for my kids, my husband, I had to make a selfish choice for once,” she said.
In an honest conversation with News 2’s Alex Denis, she explained the stress she felt was overwhelming from the pressure from state and district mandates as well as texting expectations, canned lessons, meetings, gradings, lesson planning, individual student time and parent conferences.
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This is why, people.
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