Dear Editor:
I am a junior at Gilroy High School this year and I had the
privilege of having Mrs. Kristen Porter for my English III class. I
can not begin to say enough good things about Mrs. Porter and how
talented she is as a teacher.
Dear Editor:
I am a junior at Gilroy High School this year and I had the privilege of having Mrs. Kristen Porter for my English III class. I can not begin to say enough good things about Mrs. Porter and how talented she is as a teacher. This is the reason I have been so pleased to read all the articles concerning her completely unprofessional “firing” in The Dispatch recently.
I cannot begin to say how happy I was to learn that the community is not taking this matter lightly and something that will just go away if we ignore it, because it won’t. This outrageous behavior, from grown adults, who the students are supposed to be looking up to, will not just go away. We the community, teachers and students have to stand up for what we know is right and defend those whose only crime was teaching the community’s children and speaking up for herself and them. Is that a crime?
Mrs. Porter has taken a stand against what has happened to her and many of those who have gone before her, defending not only teachers, but the students as well. She did this, not for herself, or to get her job back, she did it because she knew in her heart that there was something wrong at Gilroy High School and she was concerned about the student’s education. She stood up for us, but was deeply hurt, cut down and treated like a common criminal in the process. If this is not an unselfish act, then I don’t know what is.
This woman, that the school administration views as an “unfit match,” has a gift for teaching. I know this because I witnessed it everyday in her classroom. She is a teacher that goes the extra mile and teaches her students the difference between right and wrong, a teacher that actually makes you want to do better, a teacher who stands up for her kids. Is that not a great teacher? I think it is. The teachers aren’t the problem at GHS, the administration is.
Lindsey Beckle, Gilroy
Submitted Saturday, March 27 to ed****@****ic.com
