Teaching - Part Seven - A Call to Inaction

The culture of education was built on a pretty exploitative tradition, and as long as everyone keeps co operating with it, it's not going to change. In the event that your administrators at all levels don't do what needs to be done to make things better, i want to suggest to you that quitting is not your only option. The alternative is simply saying no. It's subversion, conscientious objection, passive resistance. You're at the end of your rope anyway? Yes, you could lose your job. But you been thinking about leaving anyway? And if the ten best teachers in your school decided to simply refuse to perform some of the duties being asked of them, do you really think