Time to Fight Back, Teachers

I'm fortunate to work for a district that values my skills, but many teachers don't have that. Instead, they are constantly told that they must do more with less, reach unrealistic (or impossible) goals, and compete with charter schools that rarely perform as well as their public counterparts. From Gapers Block, Katie Osgood tells the story of one Chicago Public Schools teacher who couldn't take the stress, and committed suicide.

Osgood calls upon teachers to do what they do best. Teach the public about what is happening in our schools:

This post is for all my teacher colleagues out there. It's time for us to fight back. It's time to take back our profession. Teachers, use your natural inclination to educate and start teaching your friends and families about the hard realities of our profession. And don't be afraid to sing our praises. What we do is good work and it needs to be protected and cherished.