Back in the day, they put Socrates and Jesus, both teachers, to death for striving for academic excellence. And, judging by the viciousness of the current corporate-based education reform movement in America, and subsequently Nevada, not much has changed in the treatment of our children’s educators for the past several millennia.
Socrates once said: “Teaching goes poor and nude.” But he failed to mention that teachers also are treated like total crap, vilified, bullied and turned into sheepish little twits, afraid of their own shadows in their classrooms.