Author: Lydia Kulina-Washburn

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education.Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system.Teacher harassment in Malvern, Pennsylvania, grabbed national headlines earlier this year. But what happened there is hardly an isolated incident.At our Philadelphia school, situated about 30 minutes from suburban Malvern, my fellow teachers and I have daily mental health check-ins with each other. We console each other in supply closets. For years, I have given out therapists’ contact information. I have written about the…