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Public School Teachers
Teacher? Babysitter? Social Director? Therapist?
For years, those claiming that they want to reform education have savagely attacked the teaching profession. The pandemic proved them wrong.
- Aannestad Andelin & Corn LLP
We live in a society that has deprioritized the needs of children. The days of a parent being able to stay home to raise their offspring are long gone and an appropriate work-life balance is out of reach for most Americans. Decades of trickle-down economics have frayed the social safety net leaving too many children hungry and homeless. Even for those with access to good health insurance, mental health services are difficult to obtain. Our neighborhood social structures have disintegrated leaving today’s children without the villages that helped raise previous generations.
Our public schools have done their best to pick up the slack by providing food for hungry…