Letter: Thank you to Ravenna teachers

Thank you to the Ravenna School District teachers for making the hard choices; support staff for doing the hard work; administrative officials for making the hard decisions, and the school board members for representing the hardest hit in our community. As many other districts are now returning to in-person learning, it boggles the mind to realize that we in the RSD have had in-person learning since both before and after the Thanksgiving Covid spike.

Kudos for thinking about the many families in our community who cannot afford to keep a job and stay home with their kids at the same time. While I’m sure the decision was difficult and scary and anxiety-inducing, I want to say thank you for everyone showing up to teach our kids in the best possible environment every day. They masked up to greet our kids at drop-off, adapted to new learning styles and have done some of the hardest work of the pandemic. They even managed to figure out how to make school lunch safe!