Putting on my other hat – as a teacher – to share this. I’m at about the same point in my teaching career as the writer of this post, and though any accolades I’ve earned are at a district level rather than a national level like him, our experiences are not all that different in terms of teaching. And I feel very much like he does about the subject of the governor’s war on education and educators. .
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address and executive budget proposal at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll*)
I opened the newspaper today when I got home from work- I don’t have time to read it beforehand- and the Governor of New York’s State of the Union address was dissected on the front page. The headline read, “Teachers, taxes, wages targeted: Governor calls teacher evaluations ‘baloney’.”
Now I understand that this headline is an editorial decision, but it doesn’t make you feel too good to come home from a day of nurturing, guiding and mentoring young people to feel like your back is in the cross-hairs of the most powerful man in the state. But unfortunately, I’m getting used to it. The photo that accompanied the article is a ‘classic’, in every sense of…
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