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Marine Turned Teacher Speaks Up

Read this impassioned letter from a marine turned teacher but now 10 years into teaching HS physics. It was forwarded to me by a new teachersspeakup.com subscriber, who spotted it on the Washington Post website, where journalist Valerie Strauss copped it off Diane Ravitch’s blog. Notice how this voice got around and reached a much wider audience. And take a look at the comments it inspired from other teachers. Go, Matthew Swope!

Now compare this to the (I’m sorry to say) lame “You Are Essential” effort by the Coalition of Essential Schools, which includes no real content but merely photos of teachers carrying “I am essential” signs. People, it’s time to TELL OUR STORY.

One Comment to “Marine Turned Teacher Speaks Up”

Sara Martinez says:

01/27/2013 at 5:35 pm

Before you give Matthew an award for his sacrifice to education lets ask how he came to be a teacher. Why was he discharged from the Marine Corp? Has anyone bothered to check his background with the Lubbock Police Dept? I believe it is a reporters duty to investigate the facts of a story before publishing them.

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