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Rita Osborn
Toxic Teacher
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Rita P. Osborn began her teaching career in instrumental and vocal music in 1950. After her marriage she interrupted her profession until all her five daughters were in school. Then she returned as a professor of music at a community college in Florida. It was while teaching in small, stuffy classrooms that she began to suffer symptoms of what is now known as Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS.) Toxic Teacher details her struggles with the school administration and environmental illness while encouraging her students and persevering to retirement.
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Forced to switch campuses while teaching at a southern two-year college, Rita Osborn walked into an unhealthful environment. The buildings and teaching facilities were toxic, and so was the administration’s attitude toward doing anything about it. TOXIC TEACHER describes this teacher’s efforts to continue her career while pressing for a more healthy work and study facility for all the faculty and students at the college. Included at the end of the story is a list of recent advances in the environmental and medical fields, some survival tips for chemically sensitive victims, and resources for others fighting to overcome similar sick-building problems.
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Rita P. Osborn Honored - - - The author of Toxic Teacher, which told of her 25-year struggle to teach in a toxic classroom, has been honored by the college where she taught. She was cited both for her accomplishments as a music and humanities professor and for leading “efforts to create healthier environments in classrooms and practice rooms that have resulted in recent large-scale reconstruction.” (Quoted in part from THE HUMAN ECOLOGIST, Fall 2011)
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I found Toxic Teacher to be a tremendously helpful contribution to understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and the MCS patient. It paints a graphic picture of the severe and puzzling reactions patients experience and what they go through in attempting to get medical care and needed workplace accommodations. Even with the wider medical and public knowledge these days, many patients still face an ongoing struggle.
Nancy J. Robinson, President, HEAL of Tampa Bay
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If you enjoy this account of Rita’s teaching career, you might also like to read MUFF, the story of her earlier life and education. More information about it is at: www.cafepress.com/muffbook.
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Forced to switch campuses while teaching at a southern two-year college, Rita Osborn walked into an unhealthful environment. The buildings and teaching facilities were toxic, and so was the administration’s attitude toward doing anything about it. TOXIC TEACHER describes this teacher’s efforts to continue her career while pressing for a more healthy work and study facility for all the faculty and students at the college. Included at the end of the story is a list of recent advances in the environmental and medical fields, some survival tips for chemically sensitive victims, and resources for others fighting to overcome similar sick-building problems.
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Rita P. Osborn Honored - - - The author of Toxic Teacher, which told of her 25-year struggle to teach in a toxic classroom, has been honored by the college where she taught. She was cited both for her accomplishments as a music and humanities professor and for leading “efforts to create healthier environments in classrooms and practice rooms that have resulted in recent large-scale reconstruction.” (Quoted in part from THE HUMAN ECOLOGIST, Fall 2011)
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I found Toxic Teacher to be a tremendously helpful contribution to understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and the MCS patient. It paints a graphic picture of the severe and puzzling reactions patients experience and what they go through in attempting to get medical care and needed workplace accommodations. Even with the wider medical and public knowledge these days, many patients still face an ongoing struggle.
Nancy J. Robinson, President, HEAL of Tampa Bay
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If you enjoy this account of Rita’s teaching career, you might also like to read MUFF, the story of her earlier life and education. More information about it is at: www.cafepress.com/muffbook.
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