More about how teachers feel:
Martin Freeman, a teacher at Health Professions High School, said, “Where should I start with the problems facing public education? I’m worried about our situation. I’m worried that Health Professions HS may be shut down even though it is not being closed right now. I think all of the public schools are worried now because they might be closed next.
“Teachers are demoralized. They are worried about their careers, their wages, their benefits and their seniority. I think the charter schools are salivating on the sidelines. They want to come in and take over. The city wants to take teachers off their payroll and subcontract the whole business out. This is very obvious. Bloomberg is a businessman. Cathleen Black was not hired to run an education system. This is the death knell of public education.
“We don’t know how it will come out. It depends on what the politicians can get away with. The Republicans are pushing for privatizing public education with charter schools. New York Governor Cuomo seems like he is for it. I was disappointed in Obama when the school fired all the teachers in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Obama said, ‘Good. They should fire them.’
It's all about neoliberal ideology, and therefore public schools must be dismantled.
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Michelle Rhee's record as "chancellor" of D.C. schools isn't worth writing home about.
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