Your Back-To-School Messages Are Hurting Teachers

Retweeting chirpy clichés only puts more pressure on teachers — and ignores the real problems

Shanna Peeples
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readAug 5, 2018

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Art by Shanna Peeples

TToo many people outside of classrooms spend too much time telling people inside them what to do. Once you leave the classroom, it’s tempting to want to share all of your advice with others.

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Shanna Peeples
Human Parts

Ed. Professor | Harvard Ed.L.D. | 2015 National Teacher of the Year