SOLIDARITY with the Chicago Public Schools teachers on strike at the moment. / :with love and squalor

:with love and squalor

i am a pre-k teacher at a failing school in inner city baltimore. once before this i was a contemporary critical theory/phenomenology/critical race theory student at a cozy little school that taught me enough to make myself into an existential nihilist, but didn't teach me how it's possible to stay alive in the world that way. sometimes i post about that stuff.

other times i post about the mountain goats, the failure of public education in america, baltimore (we have a love/hate relationship), atheism, good politix, and the basic disappointments of the human condition.

i've started to amass a bunch of education followers which is GREAT! and welcome! but just know that this is my personal blog and some of the things i post on here are unrelated to education and may be explicit or not kid friendly in some way (personal stuff, poetry, LGBTQ stuff, critiques of capitalism and the state, etc.).

# September 11, 2012 / 4:59PM 3 notes

SOLIDARITY with the Chicago Public Schools teachers on strike at the moment.

Perhaps one day soon, Baltimore teachers can follow suit and fight for conditions that allow us to educate this city’s children in the way they deserve.

Love,

A Baltimore City public school teacher

PS: The general public may not understand, but we surely do.

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