To the teachers who’ve quit, and the teachers who’ve stayed.
We all know that teachers are underappreciated. Undervalued, underpaid, underfunded. Under an immense responsibility that has been placed on their shoulders. Like Sisyphus, teachers roll the boulder of education towards an unreachable peak, over an increasingly treacherous terrain. Every spring, like clockwork, we thank them for one week and move on. Yet every fall they return to their classrooms, ready for another 180 school days of being undervalued, underpaid, underfunded. Why?