Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.
We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.
Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.
We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going to create a platform that says very explicitly what it is that teachers experience in their classrooms.
I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.
If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.
Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.
We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.
We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.
I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.
