Well written, John. My late wife taught Elementary Special Education for 30 years. We spent many a long night grading papers, running averages, and she spent untold time on the phone with parents, and working on IEPs. She was an excellent teacher, whose students would come back to see her years after they left her class. She was never recognized as "Teacher of the [whatever]" because she didn't play the game and write lengthy papers explaining what she did. She was too busy doing it.
The treatment of public school teachers (and for that matter, public schools) is shameful. So, speak up, Young John, about the outrages being perpetrated on Florida's children.
