“Fighting for the children while the shrapnel seems only to be killing teacher after teacher.” | Get Schooled

“Fighting for the children while the shrapnel seems only to be killing teacher after teacher.” | Get Schooled:

“Fighting for the children while the shrapnel seems only to be killing teacher after teacher.”

by Maureen Downey

I wrote a column for the print AJC on national Teacher Appreciation Week, which I will post later today. I decided to post this essay first to kick off the week. This was written by a local teacher who asked me to withhold her name.
Here is her piece:

It’s teacher appreciation week, again, and the fact the fact that teacher morale is at the lowest its probably ever been shows that our nation is ignoring the reason that the week was started in the