Teachers and public schools are under attack worldwide. Really?
Teachers in every American city, county and state tell of being in the front lines of the attacks on public schools and public school teachers.
They are correct, and they are wrong. Unlike the bubble tests teachers are forced to administer, real issues are complex and require fuller explanations that support the reasoning behind the answer.
Reasoning: Teachers in the front lines see the gross unfairness of “no excuses” foisted upon their students who are expected to function like data machines regardless of realities such as hunger, illness, disabilities and stress – lots of stress. Teachers see the theft (underfunding) from public schools as politicians hand hundreds of millions of dollars to the corporate interests who donate to the reelection campaigns of those same politicians. Tax incentives, juicy government contracts for corporate charters, insane amounts handed to testing companies for high stakes tests that cannot be examined by students, parents, teachers or administrators who are not even allowed to question the politically determined failure rates, and the debasement of teachers as scapegoats.
Reasoning: It is not happening in their districts or even in America alone. Teachers in the
