The Teaching World Used to Be Sacred, Like Coaching | One Teacher's Perspective

The Teaching World Used to Be Sacred, Like Coaching | One Teacher's Perspective:

The Teaching World Used to Be Sacred, Like Coaching

by Imagine Wisconsin

My writing rate dropped off this past week with the kickoff of my kids’ soccer seasons and my seasonal return to the coaching world .

Coaching now trumps writing as the single most therapeutic experience of my week. The anti-public educatorism brought to Wisconsin by outside moneyand outside forces (like the Koch Brothers, ALEC,and MacIver Institute) and subsequently adopted and implemented by Governor Scott Walker have caused terminal damage to my daytime profession as an educator. In the evenings and on weekends, coaching provides relief from Walker’s dichotomous creationin Wisconsin.

In recent years, my coaching has centered on my kids’ activities. However, I have been at the coaching game my entire adult life. In fact, I was a coach before I was a teacher. Under the wing of one of my former coaches, I started coaching as a college student. Of course, I then had no idea my coaching experience would be the