I still believe in this country
I just read I don't believe in this country anymore. I can feel along with its author the pain he experiences, for I have seen it in the faces of some of my fellow teachers and far more often in the faces of the families of the students I have taught recently. Increasing numbers of our graduates focus on state colleges and universities because other opportunities have been foreclosed by finances, by loss of financial aid possibilities.
Yet I still believe in this country. If I did not, I would not have spent this past weekend in Providence, at Netroots Nation.
I would not have brought John Jackson and Diane Ravitch in to speak about how we can win the war on public education.
I would not have spent the past 17 years teaching in public schools, trying to convince my young people that
Yet I still believe in this country. If I did not, I would not have spent this past weekend in Providence, at Netroots Nation.
I would not have brought John Jackson and Diane Ravitch in to speak about how we can win the war on public education.
I would not have spent the past 17 years teaching in public schools, trying to convince my young people that