It is not an easy job, and while your pity and words of comfort and back pats are appreciated, educators and kids need your NO vote on Amendment 3, in Missouri, next week. Teaching is not like other jobs. We do not work in factories, and your children are not products on an assembly line. We absolutely must keep local control in Missouri schools.
This is the state of American education. When one makes a statement, a joke, or an observation about inadequate teacher pay, one does not fully understand the gravity of the professional conundrum in which teachers and administrators find themselves. Teachers, principals, superintendents, and members of school boards across the land are constantly refilling their empty quivers and re-acquiring a bead on multiple moving targets: assessments, standards, evaluations, research, best practices, data collection, interventions, and much more. What is true and what is expected can change in an instant. Experience means very little when everything is in constant flux. By process, this is the current state of education in the United States.
It is not an easy job, and while your pity and words of comfort and back pats are appreciated, educators and kids need your NO vote on Amendment 3, in Missouri, next week. Teaching is not like other jobs. We do not work in factories, and your children are not products on an assembly line. We absolutely must keep local control in Missouri schools. Comments are closed.
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