Professional Experience and Personal Reflections by Lisa Bowstead, Founder Our teachers are in an impossible situation February 22, 2013 Most people I know would never just stand-by and watch if they saw a child in harm's way. ...and yet our whole country has allowed this horrific situation: we've put all of our kids directly in harm's way by not properly funding their education. Our teachers work under impossible conditions: workloads have doubled, they have no books, paper or supplies, and they are routinely blamed for failures. A heart-felt thank you to all teachers who are able stick it out! NYC schools, whose budgets are already cut to the BARE bones, are facing yet more cuts next year. ~~~ How can we let this happen? ~~~ How can we stop it? ~~~ How can we fix it? Read the article: huffingtonpost.com As school districts continued to cut budgets, increase class sizes, and implement teacher performance evaluations, teachers' job satisfaction plummeted in 2012, reaching an all-time low, according to a survey released... Teacher Survey Shows Morale Is at a Low Point |