System leaves already-struggling public educators in lurch
(NEWSER) - Public school teachers grapple with 80-hour work weeks on tight salaries, with little creative freedom, while the media attacks their unions—and on top of all that, they face mass layoffs on a regular basis. In San Francisco, for example, 2,800 teachers were warned last week that their jobs were at risk, writes Dave Eggers in the San Francisco Chronicle . The threat isn’t just to teachers: “There is no child psychologist who will tell you that children thrive amid chaos and uncertainty.” More»
