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In reply to the discussion: A TEACHER STORY: WHY I’M LEAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION [View all]boppers
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I truly understand. It's tiring, depressing, and dangerous to one's career to dream about what
jody
Jan 2012
#2
"Standardized schools = standardized education" or teaching to the lowest standard so all can
jody
Jan 2012
#8
I think charters are both good and evil, like typical public schooling systems.
boppers
Jan 2012
#39
If illiteracy is a disease, how effective is the doctor at treating a wide variety of patients?
boppers
Jan 2012
#48
Those educators who conceived the concept of charter schools later pulled their support
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2012
#37
Some did, some did not and actually success rates is the subject of raging debate which resembles
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#41
Thanks for bringing this here. And Sarah, every time I hear some idiot spouting off...
prairierose
Jan 2012
#4
I just got my Masters in Teaching from Michigan State and I have no job in site.
terip64
Jan 2012
#12
Please don't leave. The future of the country depends on people like you - and my wife.
HopeHoops
Jan 2012
#13
very interesting and not surprising, yet amazing. not being a teacher, or in the system
seabeyond
Jan 2012
#42