Reply #13: We are

[teach1st]

This is a problem that must be fixed, and teachers should be at the head of the line demanding it be fixed.

Nobody listens to us. We demand that the testing madness that leads to shallow, very narrow learning be eased. We demand that societal conditions that lead to poverty, parents working two jobs and being unable to spend time with their kids, drug abuse, child abuse, and increased violence be addressed. Teachers have gotten better at what we do, but we have to contend with a hell of a lot more adversity than ever before. We are speaking out. Not many people are listening.