A Trayvon Martin Fundraiser Cost a Teacher Her Job—And Showed the Value of Unions
Teachers nationwide are looking for ways to educate their students about the murder of 17-year-old Florida teenTrayvon Martin. But according to Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, doing exactly that cost Michigan middle school teacher Brooke Harris her job.
The quality of Harris' instruction isn't a factor in her firing. She's been named her school's teacher of the year two of the last three years. Her skill as an educator is evident from the fact that she followed experts'