The audacity of Hope Moffett
by Benjamin Herold on Feb 20 2011 Posted in Latest news
“I did this because I don’t want my students to be disheartened,” says Audenried teacher Hope Moffett of her decision to go public about her reassignment despite a gag order and threat of further discipline.
Last Friday, Hope Moffett became the most talked-about teacher in Philadelphia.
Though her students at Audenried High School were gearing up for next month’s all-important state PSSA exam, the third-year English teacher spent the day in an overheated basement room in a distant District outpost, isolated but for a few brief visitors and an occasional mouse scurrying across the room.
An outspoken critic of the District’s plan to convert her school into a charter, Moffett, 25, has been temporarily reassigned to so-called “teacher jail.”
Thursday, she received a letter from the District instructing her to report on Friday to the District’s High School Academic Division in Strawberry Mansion instead of to
