NYC Educator: Happy Turkey Day

NYC Educator: Happy Turkey Day:

Happy Turkey Day

by NYC Educator

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who bothers to read this little blog, all those who've contributed to it, and all those who took time out from their Thanksgiving Day to read this.

We have a lot to be thankful for. We have the best job in the world. There is no greater privilege than that of influencing, guiding, and helping our young people. I'm very proud to be a teacher, and all teachers have much to be proud about.

Though they trash us in the media, though we're used as a political football, and though the President of the United States sees fit to use us as his Sister Souljah moment, we move on and do the important work we've chosen, day after day.

Of course it's not easy. And of course many of us are suffering from the disaster that rocked the east coast three short weeks ago. But we're smarter and tougher than our detractors, and