We’re losing our best teachers

From Kentucky:

Kentucky Teacher of the Year leaves job thanks to anti-gay harassment and abuse https://t.co/OvMK3A45s4

— Beatrice Lacy (@BeatriceLacy) July 7, 2022

From Minnesota:

MN teacher of the year joins KY teacher of the year in leaving the classroom. For different reasons, they both feel are not supported. This, combined w/yesterday's @AFTunion poll, shows teachers under siege. https://t.co/wuMdhNhRF5 @rweingarten @DeniseSpecht @120Strong

— Bob Morgenstern (@MorgyWV) July 12, 2022

From that article:

“I made myself a promise ages ago that when I get to a point where I no longer can dream in the classroom, can feel the passion just flowing through my veins, that I would step away,” she told me in June over an iced chai, at a table outside an Eagan cafe.

Part of her problem came from a book she used in her classroom. The link explains.

And the future?

From Arizona and Oklahoma:

The power of the state will now be used to attack individual teachers, schools or districts. How, for example, is it possible to teach about the Tulsa race massacre when the Governor is auditing the Tulsa school district for allegedly teaching CRT? https://t.co/pAwsLUjZtJ

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 8, 2022

And in Florida:

Moms for Liberty and allied groups are now training members to monitor teachers’ social media. pic.twitter.com/qlKfpc0LkX

— frank strong (@frankstrong) July 5, 2022

(Note -- click on the feed to see the entire poster.)

More on Moms for Liberty from the New York Times:

“A woman said… staff at a local school library would be ‘plowed down’ with a gun. The police determined that the incident, which took place at a meeting of Moms For Liberty, was not made in context of a threat and there was no need to file charges.” https://t.co/mKdOMrLGyi

— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) July 6, 2022

Why would anyone go into teaching?