I’m a Teacher, and Defending Public Education Is Now Part of My Job

“I didn’t choose activism. It chose me the moment I realized my students were walking into my classroom carrying entire systems on their backs — systems too heavy for 15-, 16-, 17-year-old shoulders. But suddenly, in the last year, everything crystallized. It started as a field trip, at least on paper. Permission slips, buses, community-organization sponsors and chaperones. But I...

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