Get Off the Pot
by antiqueteacher60
Something has been nagging in my brain for a while now. It was a comment left on one of my posts about being tired that said “Shit or get off the pot.” When the comment was posted, my mouse hovered over the “unapprove” button, but then I thought to myself that the comment, while I may have found it rude, could perhaps lead to some discourse and understanding.
That comment didn’t. But yesterday, Tim Slekar posted http://atthechalkface.com/2013/05/26/the-bird-is-the-word/. Tim said what I had been thinking – this really isn’t an EITHER / OR discussion. This is BOTH/AND discussion.
So, for those of us who CHOOSE to stay in the classroom, I have this advice:
The reality is that for many of us, our incomes are the primary incomes for our families. That doesn’t mean, though, that we can sit back and say “Well, how nice for them, but I could never do anything like that.” Maybe we can’t quit – maybe our families need us to keep working in a system that is broken. Maybe we think
