While I adore and respect PW-B, I am having trouble celebrating this as a teacher who still does not have a contract for 2022-2023 and is dealing with the professional hellscape of disrespect of the past few years.

Kman3K?

Just as it is my right as an educator to want to hold Jill Biden to a higher level of accountability as the national face of education and teachers.

The initial responss:

Well, I am only a lowly high school (white) English teacher, but I know better than that.

We sure wouldn’t have “qualified immunity” like the police do, or that the military accepts human casualties as a consequence of war.

I cannot even begin to imagine the trauma I would endure if I had to shoot a teen I had been teaching and supporting a week ago, as well as the trauma my students would endure watching me kill their peers in defense of their lives. And I will never understand the disconnect/compartmentalization some educators could…

“Good teacher fashion” does not apply to good teaching. Smoothing over racism doesn’t fly with a lot of us any more - and I am including your wife in this good teaching mode. It’s not an attack on her statement - just calling out Jill Biden for choosing to “smooth it over” instead having the awareness she should have…

Just how much should a teacher get for being shot because their administration refused to support her and ignored violent incidents? And because our society does not actually give a crap about teachers because we are suppose to martyr ourselves for the children (or, in your case, for the school district that allowed…

Please don’t forget they are also calling teachers “groomers” - we have targets on our back, too.

Good old”pro-choice” Susan Collins - always speaking up when it won’t have an impact on her.

As a veteran teacher, it is beyond getting old to have the public decide that teachers are responsible for all social ills. Send us into classrooms pre-vaccine (my room’s windows do not open and we have a 50 year old ventilation system), blame us for a pandemic’s learning loss, blame us for the books we teach, blame…