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In reply to the discussion: That high school Obama spoke at Sunday night? [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)47. You are a life saver. I've met several public school teachers and staff who I rate that way.
Their continuing on the face of all the odds, the abuse, the disenheartening facts of life, deserve our gratitude. I cannot express how much they have done to hold communities together and give their students a chance when society discarded them. Thanks for what you do.
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Sometimes the Medium is the Message and sometimes its where they plant the podium.
grantcart
Oct 2012
#13
See if you can write an OP that long and that heartfelt without offending someone..
Fumesucker
Oct 2012
#12
This is very powerful. Thank you for writing it. I sure wish the President could read it.
NBachers
Oct 2012
#21
Very nice - though it would be better if you substituted "undocumented" for "illegal".
GoneOffShore
Oct 2012
#26
THIS is why "local control"---AKA, local property taxes---is the BANE of US public education. Birth-
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#35
Clark County? Some years back, returning to teaching after raising a family, they interviewed me;
maddiemom
Oct 2012
#37
nevernose - great job. This is what makes me proud to be democrat - Obama's people have to set up
toby jo
Oct 2012
#42
You are a life saver. I've met several public school teachers and staff who I rate that way.
freshwest
Oct 2012
#47