Talk is Cheap When It Comes to Teachers

It is supposedly National Teacher Appreciation Week, but all teachers have gotten for the past couple of years especially is relentless trashing by people who haven't a clue about what teachers go through but arrogantly think they know more:

Respect? Value? Support? Not seeing much.

More fundamentally, your very presence in the role of Education Secretary reflects a level of disrespect for our profession not found in others. Our Surgeon General is a career physician, who earned a full MD before going into family practice. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a career naval officer, who studied at the Naval Academy before participating in combat operations aboard a destroyer. Yet despite “working in education” for a while, you never studied education, and you’ve never taught in a public school classroom. Working in non-profits, playing basketball, and being a political appointee are not substitutes for classroom experience.

This "letter" could go to Eli Broad as well, since he is one of the culprits who is hellbent on putting unqualified people in charge of school districts around the country. He erroneously believes schools are businesses rather than public services.
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I have written on this blog about how Michigan is no longer a state run by the consent of the governed but instead has turned into a full-blown dictatorship thanks to the creation of "emergency managers" who are not held accountable to anybody and receive kickbacks from corporations, things public officials used to go to jail for.

I missed Rachel Maddow's interview of the other day:

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We are so in danger of losing every single thing we hold dear in this country.