Important post.
I beg your indulgence and forgiveness as I step away from my usual topics and post about my other life…my passion for teaching.
Teaching has not been a fun place to be in recent years. Don’t get me wrong…I love it and truly cannot imagine doing anything else with my life. But the public narrative has become one that vilifies all teachers and makes us out to be incompetent, greedy, lazy, and almost criminally negligent. I hope that most of you know this cannot be farther from the truth.
In this video, Joshua Katz eloquently gives voice to the frustration that I hear every day in the teachers’ lounge. Frustration that America has handed our public schools over to testing companies and for-profit charter schools while simultaneously attempting to completely sweep the far-reaching effects of poverty under the rug. Poverty is too vast a problem, too fearsome to overcome. Blaming…
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