To whoever it may concern, I as a student at Southwest Miami Senior Highschool am beyond outraged. I have never seen so many wonderful teachers let go at this school and watching students suffer as a result. We suffered massive amounts of hospitalizations of students last year and only one person handled them all and further prevented them. A person who saved so many lives and was there for so many students unlike I've ever seen, someone who I can personally acredit to saving my life along with another teacher due to my depression; Andrea Fletcher. She was our school trust counselor. That is right, she "was". She was the only counselor that has never failed me as a student and made sure my needs were always taken care of because she genuinely cared. I'm seeing teachers who actually cared about students being let go, our schedules being changed and throwing us into random classes and confusing us greatly, disrupting our school lives as every time we're switched we have to find out what's going on. We're not even notified until we get to the class being removed about the changes. Ms.Rodriguez was one of the most amazing and caring teachers I have ever seen, educating students on those who want to take the career path of photography. This is the second class I have been removed from. Many people, I included, have now suffered blows to our career paths as we now have to scramble and put our portfolios together by ourselves so we can submit our college applications. Are we just numbers to you? Do the well being and safety of children matter to you? I still see horrible teachers who bring students down walking around as we sit and wait worrying which one of our amazing faculty we will lose next. Something has to change, something's gotta give. We are not just numbers, we are students, people who are in your county trying to lead the future, but it's hard when those with amazing leadership roles that we look up to are leaving us.
We students await your response, Miami Dade County. What are you going to do for us?
Updates
September 22, 2017
The growth of this petition has reached a level that commands attention from the school administration. We have finalized a formal letter requesting a meeting with the principal to address these staffing decisions and the resulting disruption to our academic schedules.
14 Comments
I am a Southwest alumni and am shocked to find out that this is happening at my alma mater.
My son is at SW and he keeps complaining about his schedule getting flipped every week. How are they supposed to learn anything if they cant even stay in the same seat for a month? Admin needs to get it together.
While I don’t attend southwest, as a fellow high school student I find it completely absurd that the school could do such a thing to their students and faculty.
It is not fair and just that we have been taken out of our class and put into a class that we did not pick just because money has been transferred to charter schools instead of the public school system
I have a niece at this school and I also graduated from SW many years ago. It's a great school with many great teachers and counselors, but lackluster and disorganized administrative management. Let's focus on the students' needs instead of creating turmoil and chaos with unnecessary and often, unexplained, changes. Remove the roadblocks to creativity and pursuit of happiness.
We need good Teachers keep Andrea Fletcher. Great Person
Good teachers are to be valued not cut due to budgets.
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To whoever it may concern, I as a student at Southwest Miami Senior Highschool am beyond outraged. I have never seen so many wonderful teachers let go at this school and watching students suffer as a result. We suffered massive amounts of hospitalizations of students last year and only one person handled them all and further prevented them. A person who saved so many lives and was there for so many students unlike I've ever seen, someone who I can personally acredit to saving my life along with another teacher due to my depression; Andrea Fletcher. She was our school trust counselor. That is right, she "was". She was the only counselor that has never failed me as a student and made sure my needs were always taken care of because she genuinely cared. I'm seeing teachers who actually cared about students being let go, our schedules being changed and throwing us into random classes and confusing us greatly, disrupting our school lives as every time we're switched we have to find out what's going on. We're not even notified until we get to the class being removed about the changes. Ms.Rodriguez was one of the most amazing and caring teachers I have ever seen, educating students on those who want to take the career path of photography. This is the second class I have been removed from. Many people, I included, have now suffered blows to our career paths as we now have to scramble and put our portfolios together by ourselves so we can submit our college applications. Are we just numbers to you? Do the well being and safety of children matter to you? I still see horrible teachers who bring students down walking around as we sit and wait worrying which one of our amazing faculty we will lose next. Something has to change, something's gotta give. We are not just numbers, we are students, people who are in your county trying to lead the future, but it's hard when those with amazing leadership roles that we look up to are leaving us.
We students await your response, Miami Dade County. What are you going to do for us?
Updates
September 22, 2017
The growth of this petition has reached a level that commands attention from the school administration. We have finalized a formal letter requesting a meeting with the principal to address these staffing decisions and the resulting disruption to our academic schedules.
14 Comments
As a class of 2005 member and partner in education, it is appalling where the education system has come. We are better than this. Bring our teachers back and therefore, make America great again!
I am a Southwest alumni and am shocked to find out that this is happening at my alma mater.
My son is at SW and he keeps complaining about his schedule getting flipped every week. How are they supposed to learn anything if they cant even stay in the same seat for a month? Admin needs to get it together.
While I don’t attend southwest, as a fellow high school student I find it completely absurd that the school could do such a thing to their students and faculty.
It is not fair and just that we have been taken out of our class and put into a class that we did not pick just because money has been transferred to charter schools instead of the public school system
I have a niece at this school and I also graduated from SW many years ago. It's a great school with many great teachers and counselors, but lackluster and disorganized administrative management. Let's focus on the students' needs instead of creating turmoil and chaos with unnecessary and often, unexplained, changes. Remove the roadblocks to creativity and pursuit of happiness.
We need good Teachers keep Andrea Fletcher. Great Person
Good teachers are to be valued not cut due to budgets.
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As a class of 2005 member and partner in education, it is appalling where the education system has come. We are better than this. Bring our teachers back and therefore, make America great again!