To be fair, what are the qualifications to be named “teacher of the year”. How is it decided? Students test scores? popularity. I know there was a teacher at the local high school who was Illinois “teacher of the year”. He was a history teacher who had Che and Mao posters in the classroom, and was an avowed communist.
I’m glad I wasn’t in his classroom. I would’ve ripped down and burned those posters of Communist mass-murderers.