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WUSF reporter -- and future teacher -- Yoselis Ramos.<\/p><\/div>\n

Editor’s Note: This is a first-person story from WUSF reporter Yoselis Ramos, who is studying to become a teacher. She recently hopped a bus with other teachers to attend a Jacksonville town hall meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Along the way she spoke with her fellow travelers about what its like to lead a classroom.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can watch “American Graduate: Teacher Town Hall” tonight at 9 on WUSF TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was hoping the trip would give me insight into what it’s really like to stand up in front of a class and teach. I’m only a sophomore in college- I still have time to change my mind. I wanted to make sure this is what I want to do.<\/p>\n

So I boarded a charter bus with 30 Tampa-area teachers.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t long before I was hearing about their frustrations — such as spending the last two hours each evening grading papers. And it sure wasn\u2019t hard to keep the teachers talking.<\/p>\n

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Once we made it to WJCT studios in Jacksonville, about two hundred teachers filled up the studio.<\/p>\n

The teachers had a theme — they didn’t have enough…. Enough options, enough resources, enough parent involvement. And don\u2019t get teachers started on standardized testing. That\u2019s something they\u2019ve had enough of.<\/p>\n

After the taping, Pierce Middle School teacher Desiree Jackson said it’s about time teachers are heard.<\/p>\n

“What we say and what we feel counts because the things that are going on in society and in legislation as if we\u2019re not competent, all kinds of negative things are coming towards us as if we\u2019re not valuable to society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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