Friday, January 13, 2012

Teacher commits suicide in Illinois school district

Intimidation is a tactic in a nationwide strategy to de-professionalize teaching, as a precondition for the dismantling of public education and the selling off or leasing of its related assets. The so-called educational reforms, begun under the Bush administration and expanded by President Obama, have largely been couched in the highly confrontational language of “accountability,” which implies that teachers are overpaid and undeserving of professional status. This has accompanied a frontal assault on the workplace gains teachers struggled to win throughout the 20th century.

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  1. Thanks for excerpting the article published on the WSWS on the tragic suicide of this teacher. Readers can find the rest here: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/suic-j09.shtml

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