Heroes of Sandy Hook -- the overlooked union TEACHERS AND STAFF!
Teachers get taken for granted by society again. This time, in Sandy Hook.
Again, I didn't hear how many lives Victoria Soto -- you know, one of those lazy, overpaid teachers -- saved by lying about her kids being in the gym before she was killed. How many kids' lives did she save, again? No one has mentioned that. Not one parent of one of those saved children, either. Yet, the dead Victoria Soto and her colleagues who survived are more heroic than the first responders. (Paragraphing for readability below)
"...We hear so very much bad about teachers.... the subject of political attacks not just in Wisconsin and Michigan and Tennessee, but in Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, California. They're ineffective, they're overpaid, they're lazy, they don't care about kids—the claims are almost unbelievable if you try to apply them to any given teacher you know, but they've been used as a potent political weapon behind reams of bad policy....[for DECADES]
...Well, it's not like Sandy Hook Elementary School was chosen ahead of time as having especially brave or dedicated teachers and administrators and staff. It's not like there's a bravest school staff competition and Adam Lanza thought he'd give himself a real challenge by facing them.
...No, this what you find in schools—in a unionized school, by the way, with workers represented by the American Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of School Administrators, and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
You find Victoria Soto, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino, Dawn Hochsprung, Mary Sherlach. You find Janet Vollmer and Kaitlin Roig and all the other teachers and custodians and library clerks who put aside their own terror to make sure students were safe..."
I demand to know: WHERE IS THE MEDIA TRIBUTE TO THESE TEACHERS ??!! Where are the parents' and the WHOLE community's thanks for their saving these children's lives??! Count the lives they saved that day -- from a man with enough ammo to kill them all -- COUNT THEM! AND GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!
Many thanks to education writer, Daily Kos' Laura Clawson, who herself is too often underappreciated for her most excellent work to show America the world of their children's schools and teachers. I loudly second her claims to honor these teachers. Looking right at you, President Obama!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/18/1170357/-Teachers-so-often-vilified-by-politicians-are-the-heroes-of-Sandy-Hook
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