Hernandez has been at San Ysidro High School since 2006. He lives in San Diego.
Our scholars are suffering.
That was the subject of the email I sent to the Sweetwater Union High School District Superintendent, the Head of Student Support Services, board members, and the director of special services, regarding requests for help with our students’ intellectual fitness wishes. in San Ysidro. High school and neighborhood. The Director of Special Services responded immediately to offer help to our students with individualized education programs.
But none of them fulfilled the wishes of our school population at large. Not the superintendent. Not the head of student services. Not any of the board members, not even the one who is meant to constitute our community.
The school principal also ignored my first email requesting resources to turn San Ysidro High School into an intellectual wellness campus.
Again, I shouldn’t have been surprised. I constantly said at college advisory committee meetings last year that in order to fulfill our students’ desires for intellectual fitness, there had to be a formula. This formula was never established through the school or district. Much bigger concern, I promised to do more.
I researched existing resources on campus and interviewed staff similar to intellectual fitness. Based on the information, I concluded that our campus needed an additional therapist on site, as there is a waiting list for the facilities; more school-like IQ facilities for our special school students, as the therapist’s existing workload was already higher than advised and growing; and San Ysidro Health Care’s presence on campus to ensure certain resources are available. These are the requests that the principal and principals and board members of the Sweetwater Union High School District ignored.
The apology I got from the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent, after sending another email reiterating my requests and emphasizing the lack of response, that the Director of Special Services will meet with San Ysidro High School staff to discuss how to continue to support our students in special education.
And the director of special facilities met with staff at San Ysidro High School. I am very grateful to you for providing additional education similar to intellectual aptitude for our special education students. But what about our other 2,000 students?
Ask any staff member at any school in the district and they’ll tell you the same thing: The number of students struggling on campus, self-medicating, struggling to adjust to socialization, and experiencing anxiety has increased, while educational motivation has increased. diminished
Administrators inform us about student engagement and the most productive first lessons, but if our children are doing well mentally and emotionally, they may not be in the right area to learn.
Our academics should have access to professionals trained in intellectual fitness. Instead, teachers are also invited to take on this role.
Since the end of distance learning similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have been strongly encouraged to implement a social and emotional learning technique in our classrooms. hours) introduced to staff, and our San Ysidro High School management has provided professional development.
But everything we need to supply in the classroom is on the surface.
We all know that adolescence is one of the most apparent stages in a person’s life. According to the World Health Organization, one in seven international adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 suffers from an intellectual disorder and depression, anxiety and conduct disorders are among them. the main reasons for illness and disability among adolescents. And that’s before our young people experienced the pandemic. with the trauma experienced by our students. I wish the social and emotional learning activities and weekly checkups I do were sufficient. But unlike the highest sensible authority, I do not deny it.
At this point, I still have no option to ask the public for help. I hand this out in the hope that by reading this you care enough to help. I will care enough to provide desperately needed intellectual fitness resources. of suffering
Because it is transparent that those who care are not.
please our children.
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