Tampa Bay Times columnist Bill Maxwell believes teaching is the noblest profession — but he doesn’t encourage anyone to enter the field anymore. People expect miracles from a profession they demonize, he argues.
With perhaps the exception of anti-intellectual Australia, the United States is virtually alone in the world in being profoundly contemptuous of its schoolteachers. The negative results — vengeful layoffs and firings, increased class loads, evaluations based on unreliable standardized tests, and the hurry-up establishment of charter schools and vouchers — are damaging the profession beyond repair.
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