Before We Blow Up Public Education Again: Lets Ask Some Teachers

As a public school teacher I have felt trapped lately in a bizarre version. of Back to the Past. My own high school years played out in the upper middle class suburbs of Upstate New York. We jokingly call it “Wegman’s Country.”

Wegmans Store Front, Courtesy Wikimedia

It was a kind of “Lake Wobegone” for white children where we were sheltered from the feminist and racial tumults of the…