Lessons from Challenger: Words from a teacher and a brother
happened 25 years ago today. The first is an interview with a teacher who remembersthat day as she and her anxious students, who had prepared for months, went from sheer joy to deep shock. It reminded me that the first citizen NASA chose to go into space was.........A TEACHER, Christa McAuliffe. During a time when we universally respected and honored the role that teachers play in the lives of children and in the fabric of society. In an interview before the launch, this citizen-astronaut said,
I was delighted that a teacher was chosen as the first space participant because there are so many of us who have daily contact with people, and that was a very exciting thing for me, to think that teachers were finally recognized as the good communicators that they are and that they reach so many students.It is sad how far our politics have led us from that perspective. It made me feel even more disappointed than I