'The most important factor driving teachers out of the classroom is a morale crisis.'
at teachers who advocated for school closures and strict COVID mitigation measures has yet to subside.
For teachers, being painted as the enemy isn't just demoralizing. Being publicly demonized also erodes what sociologist called the"psychic rewards" of the profession, which have long been a significant part of teacher compensation. While educators have never been particularly well-paid, the job has long come with the sense that they were doing something meaningful in their classrooms and for the larger community.
Yet as dire as the present moment may seem for the nation's teachers, the decline in psychic pay actually predates both the pandemic and the current culture wars. Long before the GOP embarked on its modern-day witch hunt for"woke" teachers, scapegoating teachers for educational inequities was a bipartisan endeavor—one led by Democrats.
Rhetoric about the nation's schools began to turn negative several decades ago. In 1983, the Reagan administration released its"report, bemoaning a"rising tide of mediocrity" in the schools and establishing a new narrative about public education in the U.S. Although polls indicated that Americans continued to view their own children's schools
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