At the beginning of the school year , we got a new seventh and eighth grade ELA teacher because Ms. Finch had taken a different position in the building . After the first couple days of the school year the new teacher left and Mrs. Edder was the sub for that room. About two weeks into the school year Mr. Griffith hired one of the teachers that had been interviewed over the summer, but she did not continue working at the school. So, Mrs. Edder has been subbing the ELA classes for the past nine weeks.
Mrs. Edder has been working with two seventh grade ELA classes and one eighth grade class, one of them being a seventh grade honors ELA class. Ms. Hryckowian’s old position no longer exists and she took Mr. Derickson’s job when he left. Ms. Finch took on the new role in the building as a K-6 ELA interventionist.
Some students say that the ELA class is their hardest class and that they don’t have the best grade in the class.
“It has been one of my most difficult classes because we usually forget to do stuff and are always behind all the other classes,” Brooke Glies, 8th grade student, said. Many students feel the same way about this. There have also been many behavioral issues in the classroom because everybody is always talking and messing around.
“Students act like this is their free time just because we don’t have a real teacher,” Lily Tyler, eighth grader, said.
Many people are mentioning that this is affecting their learning and they are not doing well in the class because it is hard to learn when there isn’t a set teacher.
“It affects my learning because nothing is ever graded,” Tia Yeck, seventh grader, said. Ms. Hyrkowian and Mrs. Spiker have been helping out Mrs. Edder and giving her lesson plans.
“Mrs. Spiker and Ms. Hrykowian have been extremely helpful with planning and giving me all of the resources I need,” Mrs. Edder, long-term substitute teacher, said.
The school hired a new teacher, Mr. Jonathan Dobbs, on October 10. He had to wait a month to come to the building because he is coming from Pittsburgh Public Schools, and they wouldn’t let him go until his contract ended.
“I am ready for the new teacher because the students will know that they will have a set teacher the rest of the year, and so Mrs. Hyrkowian and Mrs. Spiker don’t have extra work to do,” stated Mrs. Edder.
