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After 32 Years as a Teacher, Birutė Decided to Speak Out: ‘People Don’t Talk About This Openly’
🇱🇹 Lithuania /Culture & Society

After 32 Years as a Teacher, Birutė Decided to Speak Out: ‘People Don’t Talk About This Openly’

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Birutė Vitkauskienė, a former primary school teacher from Alytus, has published a book about her 32 years working in schools.
  • She says the book aims to share her experience openly and encourage teachers to defend their views for the sake of their students.

Birutė Vitkauskienė spent 32 years working as a primary school teacher before closing the school door for good. She says the decision ended her work at school, but not her identity as a teacher.

“I closed the school door once and for all, but I remain a teacher at heart, because there are no former teachers in this profession,” Vitkauskienė says. The Alytus resident has now published The Teacher’s Silent Confession.

She says she wrote the book because she feels ready to speak openly about her years in school and hopes it will encourage colleagues to defend their views more boldly. In her view, that is what students need most.

I closed the school door once and for all, but I remain a teacher at heart, because there are no former teachers in this profession.

— Birutė Vitkauskienė, former primary school teacherVitkauskienė describes why leaving school did not end her sense of being a teacher.
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