When Did Teachers Become Bums?
When did teachers become bums? When did it become okay to vilify an entire occupation — three million college educated professionals working as hard as anyone to make the world a better place?
It wasn’t that long ago that teachers occupied a quasi-secular-sainthood. It was the underpaid, overworked teachers who guided, inspired, succored, and cajoled every one of us to find in ourselves that bigger person we all long to be.
But lately it’s become acceptable, even sport, to blame teachers for all of the ills of American education.
The new documentary, “Waiting for Superman” is just the most recent salvo in a broad-