A Day In The Life Of A Teacher, written by Michigan middle school teacher Amber Lynn.

It takes a certain kind of hypocrite to be a charter school champion. You have to deny any wrongdoing one minute. And then admit you’re guilty but explain it away with the excuse “Everyone’s doing it!” the next.

Schools paid for with tax dollars need to be accountable and transparent. And the only way to do that is to rip up every bogus charter contract in the country and make them all abide by the same rules and regulations that ensure every child gets the high quality education he or she deserves. In other words, reverse the privatization. Public-ize them all.

Dallas has a good public education system with a long history of success. That system is being hijacked by wealthy elites and their political henchmen. An awakened citizenry can stop this travesty.

Betsy DeVos is a known enemy of public education who clearly would like to see a publicly financed system of private Christian schools. However, I make the argument here that Hillary Clinton's team of neoliberal policy wonks may have been a bigger danger to our public school system.

My daughter had bad news for me yesterday at dinner. She turned to me with all the seriousness her 10-year-old self could muster and said, “Daddy, I know you love Bernie but I’m voting for Elizabeth.”

Stop supporting High Stakes Testing
Students don't get the lessons of life from High Stakes Testing
College is NOT about High Stakes Testing
If students connect with you, they will perform.

In 2015, Inspire rolled out a successful but legally questionable method for attracting students. They offered parents $200 paid out of enrichment funds for every student they recruited and they incentivized staff $100 in extra work hours for each learner they signed.

Black students are suspended from school at substantially higher rates than white ones.. That’s indisputable. When teachers send kids to the office, when principals issue detentions and suspensions, the faces of those students are disproportionately black or brown.

“Too often, curiosity and creativity are being sundered when children go to preschool, kindergarten or elementary school. “The global education race for ‘higher standards’ at lower financial costs have turned many schools to factories that try to produce standardized products efficiently on tight schedules.”

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One in five teachers (20%) feels tense about their job most or all of the time, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in England. In similar professions, only one in eight feel this way (13%). But those are conservative estimates.”

“The problem with charter schools isn’t that they have been implemented badly. Nor is it that some are for-profit and others are not. The problem is the concept, itself.”