Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’

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47. Oh, please. There is no crisis. These people will happily teach us into becoming like the poverty-

ridden areas of rural India, vast tracts of misery interrupted by the occasional mansion. And all it will cost us is making sure they get a paycheck. We can replace them every few years, keep the costs down. 50 million people on food stamps, another 50 million drop in and out of near poverty on a regular basis. It's like a plantation without all the messy moral stuff.

Then they have a job, and at most all the money people have to hire is half the people to police and train the others, yes?

The author of that letter is talking about spirit, and like this nation, that left us when we decided becoming more profitable was better than increasing our humanity. The schools just reflect that broader trend.

The author is correct, but it's not the school's fault. The community built it and staffed it, and broken adults can't create anything but broken children.