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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

BLAMING TEACHERS « Teachers Fight Back

BLAMING TEACHERS « Teachers Fight Back:

BLAMING TEACHERS
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A Golden Chalk Award goes to Paul Easton an English teacher at New Trier High School.  He managed to get the Chicago Tribune to publish his opinion piece in the editorial page.  I’ve been trying to do so for some time without success. His piece sums up a great deal of what I have been saying about the Tribune.  The following is the editorial:

“I’m ceaselessly amazed at how the oligarchic Tribune editorial board can on one hand call public teachers as lazy, union-protected unprofessionals and  – sometimes using the same hand – cry aghast as the best-educated, most qualified professionals seek career security anywhere but Illinois schools.  Who’d a-thunk it ?  Certainly not the Tribune, which pummels teachers daily, which somehow believes teachers, nurses, firefighters,