'I find myself in my classroom every day in a state of desperation, doing my utmost to provide education and support for my students while trying to keep them -- and myself -- safe,' writes fifth-grade teacher Jami Cole.
Jami Cole is a fifth-grade teacher in Oklahoma. She runs the Facebook group Oklahoma Edvocates. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
I wake up eager to get to school in the mornings. I love my students and am energized by their excitement to learn and face new challenges every day. With the support they have in my fifth-grade classroom, I know that they will be resilient enough to overcome adversities, and they consistently prove me right over the course of a year. Then, I beam with pride when they go to the sixth grade.
But this year, like the last two before it, things have been different.After starting the year with relative stability , rumblings of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which many feared would be even more contagious than Delta, started making national and local news around Thanksgiving. All I could think was: Please don't let this lead to another surge, another episode of school closures, another wave of fear about my students' health -- and my own health.
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