Teachers' Satisfaction Tanks On Survey When Higher Expectations Come With Fewer Resources

Insulting Teachers Is Like Pissing Off The Captain During Iceberg Season

Kenneth Bernstein, as Daily Kos blogger 'TeacherKen', says "We cannot fix the problem that over 20 percent of our students are coming from poor families."


Says William Chamberlain, a teacher in rural Missouri, "We're being blamed by the public for problems out of our control."

But it's not just the teachers who see the polarization. "Teachers are under attack," says Margery Mayer, the president of Scholastic's education arm, who oversaw the latest survey. "I personally find it very disturbing that we're putting teacher evaluations in the newspaper and putting all the blame on them."

...Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, is perpetually at loggerheads with the state's teachers union. Rhee says she tells teachers to listen closely to Christie. "He blames the teachers union," Rhee says she tells teachers. "I've never in my life heard Chris Christie blame the problems of public education on teachers."Some teachers would beg to differ. "A lot of people bash teachers unions," says Stephen Lazar, a social-studies high-school teacher in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "They don’t think they bash teachers, but teachers are the union."