Teacher's Viral 'Handle with Care' Note to Parents Offers Students 'The Grace We All Want' in Difficult Times
Teachers are tasked with handling all sorts of life’s issues on a daily basis. Many draw from their own time and resources outside of what their job requires because they care for their students so deeply. One teacher…
Teachers are tasked with handling all sorts of life’s issues on a daily basis. Many draw from their own time and resources outside of what their job requires because they care for their students so deeply.
One Teacher came up with a special system for helping students who are having off days.
It started several years ago after Rachel Harder, a fourth-grade Teacher from Hutchinson, Kansas, attended a trauma conference.
“There was a discussion how police stations across the country have started partnering with schools so that when they have encounters with families in the evenings or on weekends, the police will contact the school — either counselor or administrator — and let them know to handle a student with care since they had encounters with police beforehand,” Harder told Fox News.
“We loved this idea and figured there had to be a way to make this work within our own classroom community.”
So she wrote a note for parents simply entitled “Handle with Care.”
“If your Family