Great Teachers: Pack-Up & Go

Great teachers pack up and go somewhere else for the coming "silly season"-the era of "teacher bashing" and de-funding of public education hangs over Michigan like a black cloud of doom.

Hopefully you'll be able to return at a later time, but it will be years before Michigan will be once again ideologically hospitable to "great public school teachers." 

Great teachers are intelligent, they are caring, and they are insightful. They know that a state legislature such as the TeaPublican rabble now in control of Michigan's education funding and legislation, made brazen by a complete anti-public schools majority in all 4 branches of State government is no friend of theirs. TeaPublicans are highly primed to do harm to public education armed, early on, by the Engler Revolution which seized and destroyed local school control and funding, they have now shown they are bitter and implacable enemies of the mission and goals of a true mentor and teacher of children.

The reality is such that smart college graduates will find a professional life in a more cultured and less-antagonistic and anti-government locale, far away from the provincial taunts hurled in the hostile manner of these Know Nothings of Michigan. 

The civic sins of our past are heavy now. The way out and back to what Snyder mocks as the pervious "status quo," our healthy normal, is nowhere in sight.

Like Engler, Snyder proudly touts his attack on what he derides as the current "status quo." 

Now the lesson: What is meant by an Attack on the Status Quo?: to cause trouble, challenge the status quo, disturb the balance, make a stink, upset the apple cart.

Are these the types of disruptive social attitudes we need in Michigan at this very critical time? Whatever happened to consensus, co-operation and collaboration between the powers that be and those who teach our children. 

Great teachers teach, but perhaps not near so many in Michigan, currently under such virulent disrespect and dishonor as displayed by the TeaPublicans now in power in Lansing.

Follow Up: On the program Hardball, a while back, Chris Matthews asked former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, the all important question. What should school teachers earn? Bennett replied good teachers should be paid $80-85,000.


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