The Inconvenient Truth About Bad Teachers
Mayor Bloomberg is very, very intent on firing bad teachers. He seems equally intent on firing good teachers, but let's just give him the benefit of the doubt and say that some of the teachers that he wants to fire are indeed very bad teachers. We all know he puts children first.
And I have no doubt that there are some really bad teachers in New York City. I have no doubt of this because I was once the victim of one of the worst teachers to ever step inside a classroom. It was second grade, and everyone in an overwhelmingly white, Catholic, Republican town knew I was the "girl whose parents didn't speak English." Never mind that my parents spoke English. People just assumed.
This second grade teacher was a mix of bitter, mean, bigoted, and just flat out ignorant. She taught us that