It is a mistake to connect the decline in population to the decline in enrollment at the Greenfield Public Schools as School Committee Chairwoman Amy Proietti did in the front page article in Tuesday’s Recorder. As a 13-year veteran teacher of GPS, I finally had enough last year and left to work in a district that values teachers. Upon handing in my letter of resignation, I asked for an exit interview given my longevity with the district. No one took me up on my offer. Teachers and administrators have been fleeing the district at a rate that I can only assume outpaces that of any other local school district. If Greenfield wants to retain not only its teachers but its students then it would do well by itself to take a good hard look at what makes working there exhausting, frustrating and dehumanizing. The students of Greenfield deserve this.

Kate Bailey

Northampton

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