[eleni121]

You may have been a good teacher but most are not. And you know as well as anyone they got the same paycheck as you did at the end of the week.

That's the problem...it's demoralizing for the outstanding teachers who are simply cogs in the union model...you did the right thing to get out. Math education has never been worse.

[pt17]

There were a few of us who really loved teaching, were good at it, loved working with the kids and greatly enjoyed putting in the long hours. Many of the teachers I worked with; however, were just putting in their class time, sitting out their tenure and trying to get into administration or trying to be NEA bigwigs.