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Everything is blurry until you look through the correct lenses
The statistics around teacher burnout are staggering. The Ontario College of Teachers reported that teachers felt most stressed over job aspects such as time constraints, encountering dysfunctional families, performance evaluations, and school politics; furthermore, 58% of teachers reported feeling stressed “all the time” and “a few times a week,” compared with only 36% of the general working public (Koenig et al., 2018).
Encountering dysfunctional families is where approaching these families with an intersectionality background would be of tremendous help. Simply having a conversation with the family, finding their story and the many lenses you may have to look through could help their child. Since you have already done the work on yourself to find all of your own lenses this will help develop an empathy towards the dysfunctional families as opposed to building up negative stereotypes that I feel are exhausting over time.
Grant, C. A., & Zwier, E. (2011). Multicultural Perspectives Intersectionality and Student Outcomes: Sharpening the Struggle against Racism, Sexism, Classism, Ableism, Heterosexism, Nationalism, and Linguistic, Religious, and Geographical Discrimination in Teaching and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2011.616813
Intersectionality | Definition of Intersectionality by Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Retrieved December 13, 2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersectionality
Jones, S. R., & Wijeyesinghe, C. L. (2011). The promises and challenges of teaching from an intersectional perspective: Core components and applied strategies. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011(125), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.429
Koenig, A., Rodger, S., & Specht, J. (2018). Educator Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: A Pilot Study. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 33(4), 259–278. https://doi.org/10.1177/0829573516685017