Yes, they are making it almost impossible to be a decent teacher, but if worse comes to worse you can
a) teach in a private school b) get a TESL certificate and teach abroad: see the world, learn a few languages
You can always do something else if you hate it.
Good luck,
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- I'm entering the NYC Teaching Fellows program this year. Everything I read about the teaching profession is daunting and depressing. But I'm still quite excited.
I had seen Street Fight, the academy award nominated documentary about Cory Booker's 2002 campaign for Mayor of Newark. AFAIK, the film doesn't specifically mention where his campaign funding comes from -- certainly not from the charter school cheerleaders. So this lecture really put a damper on the optimism that I got from that movie.
Quinn
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [WS:] I rarely watch an hour+ talkshow, but hey this was worth it. He
> was pretty good. But also very depressing. First, a logical
> conclusion of his argument is that the corporate juggernaut is
> unstoppable, and the teacher unions have no chance. Second, when you
> look at the audience, briefly shown at the end of his presentation, it
> is very small and composed mostly of old white coots - 1960s liberals
> one may think.
>
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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