Very bad analogy of my statement. I hope you realize that. I was molested by a stranger in a store bathroom as a child, I know it was not my fault.
If a teacher is not standing up shouting, writing letters to the editor, striking and going to the state capital about the poor state of the system, he/she is an enabler. If so many really love the kids more than the job they would organize a massive strike and force changes. Has that happened anywhere you know of? I fear it is just a job for most, maybe a job they like, maybe they are nice, but just the same, a person doing a job while keeping their mouth shut so as to preserve it. I do not care how hard they work, they work in the system.
That does not make him/her a bad person per say or even a bad teacher. Just a good person doing nothing, like 70% of the rest of the population.
I will admit it was a rather poor analogy, but of course I had no knowledge of your personal tragedy. I'm very sorry that happened to you.
If a teacher is not standing up shouting, writing letters to the editor, striking and going to the state capital about the poor state of the system, he/she is an enabler.
Striking, you realize, is not necessarily the best tactic to take. If teachers strike, students aren't in school, they aren't learning anything, and in the public relations realm, such actions tend to backfire on the teachers, no matter how justified their reason for striking.
Teachers who do too many of the other things end up not teaching in that district, I speak from personal experience on that matter.
It's rather like changing any other part of the government, the wheels turn slowly.