Saturday, January 4, 2014

‘I would love to teach but…’ ... Washington Post

"It is with a heavy, frustrated heart that I announce the end of my personal career in education, disappointed and resigned because I believe in learning."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This entire essay was dead on! Although lengthy it was well worth the read and nearly brought me to tears as I looked back at my own teaching career in NB. I'm recently retired (thankfully) and I have empathy and sympathy for the teachers. And yes, I plan to attend the rally.

Anonymous said...

Every teacher in NBPS needs to read this. It really hits home.

Anonymous said...

Such a powerful piece and it could have been written by any member of the NBEA -what a sad future for America's public school children...

Anonymous said...

Apparently the public school system isn't the only dysfunctional institution in America. This story reminds the elephant of all that check-off-the-box training I received in the 7th Infantry way back in the mid-1980's.

This is a small slice of a very long story but one of the more telling moments in my very brief military career involved a sergeant getting everyone's attention and announcing, "Anyone who did not score expert with either the rifle or the pencil will have to shoot again."

I de-enlisted at the earliest opportunity and found something better to do.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the beginning of my own resignation letter. Devestating all the way around.

Anonymous said...

That was a very thought provoking article and reminded me that we are not alone in our situation; I still would like to know why we are receiving no media coverage from network affiliates in Boston and Providence. I realize we're not as big of a story as winter storm Hercules.....:-p

Anonymous said...

I agree with the previous blogger about the network affiliates. Shouldn't we consider having a press release sent out?