Why Do Americans Love to Blame Teachers? - The Atlantic - 1 views
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America hates teachers.
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anonymous on 06 Sep 14This is so true and incredibly demoralising. I saw many teachers go down because of it.
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programs like Teach for America are promoted as a kind of missionary calling, in which young fresh-faced college graduates replace lazy, stubborn, unionized teachers.
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That single class of people is then systematically demonized, as politicians and pundits present "worst of the worst" cases as emblematic of the whole.
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