Open Letter To The Public Education Budget Cutters

This is a reprint from Interact (A group blog from Accomplished California Teachers: Classroom expertise for better education policy.) Definitely worth the click and read. Many of the things I would like to say, but find too depressing to think about. I am watching public education and the idea that education is a public good that should be accessible to all citizens be systematically dismantled. Depressing....

"Dear Politician or Policy-Maker:

OK, I get it. You read stories about incompetent teachers being paid to do nothing and teachers unions preventing any improvement. You are embarrassed because students in Slovenia scored higher than U.S. students on an international multiple choice math exam. Even though you have probably never been a teacher and it has been years since you have spent any meaningful time in a classroom, you believe that teaching really can’t be that challenging. And, since everyone is saying that our public education system is “broken,” it must be."

To read the rest of An Open Letter to Public Education Budget Cutters, click here (I fixed the broken link)