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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts) Mon Jan 25, 2016, 01:05 PM Jan 2016

Kommon Kore Kooks Drive Another All-Star Teacher Into Retirement

This is in the "Be careful what you wish for; you might get it." category.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/nyregion/a-beloved-bronx-teacher-retires-after-a-conflict-with-his-principal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionfront&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=A74D09E939FE9C1C96A7D3F70F4F2B63&gwt=pay

So many cases like this. It's one of our time's most enduring tragedies that so many people who know absolutely nothing about teaching kids, and who know even less about public schools, are interested in "reforming" education.

Aids, Schmaids.

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Kommon Kore Kooks Drive Another All-Star Teacher Into Retirement (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Jan 2016 OP

Good teachers in the U.S.A. have to be fighters. hunter Jan 2016 #1

hunter

(38,317 posts)

1. Good teachers in the U.S.A. have to be fighters.

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 02:22 PM

Jan 2016

45 years is one hell of a fight.

We live in a society of incurious fools fearful of the light, ruled over by those who see us as little more than useful or useless cogs in their machines.

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