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RE: Crazy Ideas| A WeekEndFreeWrite
These are some pretty powerful stories, and they're ones that definitely need to be told. Teaching children is a difficult thing to do in the best of circumstances, and it takes a very special person to want to do it knowing that they will be paid little and have a lot of opposition. It's baffling.
You are right. The saddest thing is to see teachers fall into a hole from where they can't even see their own transformative and subversive power.
Our teachers here keep protesting "for salary improvements"; they lost track of the real issue. Even if they started getting a thousand $ a month (which is nothing for world standards, but a big deal for latin american standards) they would still living hell dealing with all kinds of limitations and impositions.