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'Cry when you get home’: Teachers need therapy to process the trauma of urban classrooms | Opinion

Nearly half of all teachers say that they experience high levels of stress, and it doesn’t take much to see how such stress manifests itself in Philadelphia.

Parent Heather Atkinson wears a mask during a rally before the School District of Philadelphia conducted a town hall meeting discussing the temporarily relocating of Ben Franklin and SLA students while construction is completed on the new shared campus on Monday, October 7, 2019. Atkinson has children at Meredith Elementary School and is flagged by the district as a high-priority school for asbestos removal.
Parent Heather Atkinson wears a mask during a rally before the School District of Philadelphia conducted a town hall meeting discussing the temporarily relocating of Ben Franklin and SLA students while construction is completed on the new shared campus on Monday, October 7, 2019. Atkinson has children at Meredith Elementary School and is flagged by the district as a high-priority school for asbestos removal.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer
    by Quinn O'Callaghan, For the Inquirer
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