pkeane

Hi Mr. Kristof -

I enjoy your work, but I really wish you would revisit your views on teacher's unions and teachers. My wife is a hard-working teacher (bilingual first-grade here in Austin). She loved "Half the Sky," but is incredibly disheartened discouraged by the current anti-teacher environment. It's all so terribly condescending and paternalistic (not to mention a definite strain of sexism). She's highly educated as am I, and this is the path she chose (she loves teaching). She's been a teacher for 20 years. And she's just about ready to quit.

Sigh. We have lots of work to do. So much misplaced-emphasis on wrong-headed solutions. It simply plays in to the hands of folks who would just as soon see public education go away. Not to mention those who see incredible profit opportunities in the education "reforms."