Districts: Send Teachers to the Funerals in Newtown
When a police officer or firefighter dies in the line of duty, colleagues turn out in the hundreds or thousands to attend their funeral or present an honor guard.
Could every school district within 250 miles of Newtown do the same for the fallen teachers and principal and staff?
Could teachers fly in from Chicago and Los Angeles and Boston and everywhere else?
AOL has a story that the loathsome Westboro Church plans to send a delegation to the Sandy Hook Elementary School to “celebrate” the killing.
I don’t begin to understand their warped thinking, but I do know that the rest of us owe a debt to honor our fallen heroes.
Could every school district within 250 miles of Newtown do the same for the fallen teachers and principal and staff?
Could teachers fly in from Chicago and Los Angeles and Boston and everywhere else?
AOL has a story that the loathsome Westboro Church plans to send a delegation to the Sandy Hook Elementary School to “celebrate” the killing.
I don’t begin to understand their warped thinking, but I do know that the rest of us owe a debt to honor our fallen heroes.
A New Teacher Reacts to the Massacre
>I am a brand new teacher, four months of the job at this point. I like all first year teachers am still trying to figure things out and won’t fully do that for a few years. I did a four year undergraduate degree in which I spent time in a classroom since my sophmore year, and spent my entire senior year in an elementary school setting.
Tragedies like this have happened in my life time that I can remember, but Friday was a completely different feeling now that I have a class of 20 third graders. It has been on my mind since I have heard about it.
To attack teachers or call children assets is absurd at any time, but especially at a time like this.
These corporate reformers say they care about kids, but do they really?
I happened to be at a district PD, in which our presenter happened to spend time doing DRA training in Sandy
Tragedies like this have happened in my life time that I can remember, but Friday was a completely different feeling now that I have a class of 20 third graders. It has been on my mind since I have heard about it.
To attack teachers or call children assets is absurd at any time, but especially at a time like this.
These corporate reformers say they care about kids, but do they really?
I happened to be at a district PD, in which our presenter happened to spend time doing DRA training in Sandy
Teaching Is Life Work, Not a Stepping Stone
Dear Diane,
It has been wonderful reading all those reflections from your readers. Thank you so much for offering such a space for social dialogue.
In “America’s Teachers: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?” (http://www.nationofchange.org/america-s-teachers-heroes-or-greedy-moochers-public-trough-1355674260), Dave Lindorff quotes a man demonizing public school teachers “in an attitude all too typical of many Americans’ thinking” and questions:
“Some of those ‘non-revenue-generating’ unionized teachers, and the school’s non-revenue-generating principal,
It has been wonderful reading all those reflections from your readers. Thank you so much for offering such a space for social dialogue.
In “America’s Teachers: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?” (http://www.nationofchange.org/america-s-teachers-heroes-or-greedy-moochers-public-trough-1355674260), Dave Lindorff quotes a man demonizing public school teachers “in an attitude all too typical of many Americans’ thinking” and questions:
“Some of those ‘non-revenue-generating’ unionized teachers, and the school’s non-revenue-generating principal,
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coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 5 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog: Reflections from Readers, 40 by dianerav Aside from an overly permissive gun culture and underfunded mental healthcare system, I can’t help but wonder if this climate of teacher-bashing and public school bashing in which many of our political leaders partake regularly, is to some degree a variable in the aggression, hatred and violence that have been directed at our schools’ students and staff. Can we get a moratorium from our politicians to stop bashing public schools and teachers? (Amen to that! Diane) Reflections from Readers, 39 by dianerav Diane, I d... more »
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coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] A Heroic Educator at Sandy Hook by dianerav According to the Facebook entry at the end of this post, 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto hid her students in closets and cabinets; she told the killer the children were in the gym. Her first thought was to protect her children. He killed her. The Wall Street Journal said this about her on a blog: *First-grade teacher Vicki Leigh Soto, 27 years old, died trying to protect the children she loved, her cousin Jim Wiltsie said.* *When the gunfire started on Friday ... more »