public education as the frontline to democracy

Labor Day thoughts about public education, unions, and crapitalism

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Re-entering the field of public education has felt both parts beautiful and very very difficult. I started working as a paraprofessional as a means of survival: my husband’s job was laying people off, and while he had his next job lined up, our budgets showed that we weren’t going to be able to make ends meet consistently. I desi…