There has to be a real discussion in America on how we can do a better job teaching our kids. When we ignore teachers, when we politicize the classrooms, and when teachers are regularly making over 100k and a starting teacher is making 40k, there really needs to be introduced the concept of limits. However, taking planing periods away from teachers is like chain sawing our forests and not having a plan to plant new trees.
We have a mess. Rahm is not my favorite person because I believe his ties with big Pharm was why 900 billion was left on the table and why Americans are suffering greatly because they cannot pay for their medicines. Nope, my wife was a damn good teacher. She had a great career and kicked asz on standardized scores, and parents and kids loved her, but she also has seen how good teachers have been strangled in the last decade with dictates from above, from issues of inclusion, and playing around with the curriculum by people who do not know what they are doing.....We start by listening to our teachers, and we also must have the courage to tell them that there are limits. Ed Schultz thinks there should be a blank check......he is wrong.....SR County pays subsistence wages and thinks there is more blood which can be squeezed from rocks.....no we need to listen and communicate....there are solutions, and as much as I dislike Rahm........he never was a coward, and he is taking on some big dogs right now.....and the children of Chicago, and for that matter the children of this nation need the dialogue to continue.