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Teachers and residents urge board to address staff morale, inequities and low academic proficiency in public comments
Summary
Public commenters used allocated time to say teachers feel ignored by district leadership and to press the board to demand higher performance from staff amid low proficiency levels in some elementary schools.
Two public speakers during the March 5 public-comment period urged the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Public Education to address teacher retention, staff morale and poor student proficiency results.
Raymond Watson, who identified himself as an educator, said teachers in the district feel ignored and pressured to remain silent. “The environment that is created here is an environment of fear that teachers are afraid…
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