… We want our children to have the confidence, understanding, abilities and imagination to build a bright future for themselves; while far from alone in this, good teachers give them the best tools. Despite this unshakeable belief of mine and the respect I have for serving teachers (many dear friends among them), I myself have fallen out of love with the profession. The realities of classrooms, schools, the communities they serve and the broader education system make it impossible to be as good as children and young people (and wider society) need teachers to be. I’ve been told my aspirations are too high but I can’t look at a class of children and sanction compromising on the future of any one of them. Our broken education system is failing; children are paying the price and in the long-run, we all will. Confronting …
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