Think You Understand What's On Teachers' Minds? Think Again

Author: Talia Milgrom-Elcott

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If you’ve gone anywhere near the news since teachers started walking out in across the country, you know for certain that teachers are underpaid. You also have reason to believe that they hate their jobs. The evidence seems to be everywhere: from the recent cover of The New York Times Magazine, which proclaimed that “Teachers Just Want To Teach, But The Classroom Has Become A Battleground”; to the Washington Post reporting that teaching “appears to be becoming less attractive as a profession.”