March 28, 2024

A Student's Thoughts

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My name is Taylor Sisson, and I am a senior at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School. For the past seventeen months, the teachers in our district have been working without a contract, and their salaries haven't increased with the cost of living. I am fully aware that rising costs creates potential for increasing taxes, but taxes will continue to elevate regardless of the situation. We should be investing this money into our community’s future. If you have ever attended a school in either Dighton or Rehoboth, you understand the true value of our teachers, and that they go above and beyond every single day to ensure that every student succeeds. Not only do they spend their time staying before and after school for educational support, chaperoning special dances, graduation, writing letters of recommendation, PTO fundraising events, community activities, etc,. But, they also spend volumes of money out of their own pockets to purchase classroom supplies because they want the students to have all of the necessary tools they need in order to fully comprehend, and execute every lesson. These are all things that the teachers do, and do not get paid by their contract to enhance the student's lives. Personally, I do not know what I would do without the teachers in our district. I have been educated on so much more than just academics throughout my years in school. The lessons I have been taught by the teachers in the Dighton-Rehoboth community, are lessons that the finest education couldn't provide. These teachers deserve the best there is to offer, and the lack of a quality contract is driving our devoted educators out of the district. Losing any one of our teachers would be detrimental to not only the student's success, but also the community's success. Our teachers are simply irreplaceable, and no combination of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet could ever accurately describe the value that each and every teacher in our community possesses.

Dighton, Rehoboth, School, Community

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