A family of a 2020 Stuttgart High School Senior showed their appreciation for teacher Amanda Burkman for organizing a drive-through graduation ceremony during COVID-19. Photo by Becca Castellano
many “normal” activities for the students as they possibly can. “We try to use our own experiences to show the students that we are here for themwe are looking out for them as people, as students and as young adults,” she said. Burkman said that as a teacher, at least weekly, she expects to receive some hate mail from students and parents, but since COVID-19 she has found more than usual in her inbox. “This year more than ever in my career it has become so easy to get stuck in the negative,” she said. “But over the past year, parents have gone out of their way to be extra kind. They send sweet emails or drop handwritten notes at the school. Some have brought flowers or coffee. It’s never about what they bring, it’s just knowing that someone appreciates you enough to show their thanks.” For Statkiewicz, the patience, understanding and compassion her children’s teachers demonstrated throughout COVID-19 can never be appreciated enough. “Teachers have always been and will always be the most under appreciated beings in this world,” she said. “But if you look at any successful person, there is always that one teacher that pushed them and believed in them.” This May, many will celebrate the DoDEA teachers in Stuttgart with small tokens or kind words, while others send hate mail. But through it all, Burkman and her colleagues will continue to lead the next generation into a world of knowledge and possibilities, with patience and grace. Because that’s what teachers do.
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