America’s Teachers Have a Good Reason to Be Angry
“He talked about the number of public-school teachers he knew working second jobs on nights and weekends, flipping burgers or hauling luggage at the airport. Teachers digging into their own pockets to pay for students’ basic needs and classroom supplies. Teachers living in cars, taking out loans, panhandling for more money, struggling to pay their own bills. ‘My school is one of the highest-performing schools in the state,’ he said, estimating that two in three of the teachers he had worked with in the past half decade had left for other jobs or retired. ‘These are primary positions, not ancillary positions. This is math, science, foreign language, arts, history. We had two teachers who just walked out [and quit] recently.’”