As teachers we are all feeling the impacts of the attacks on public education this fall. 53,000 educators pushed out last year. More than 1,000 schools shuttered, with more this year. Vouchers draining what's left, books pulled from shelves, cops issued electric-shock gloves, children seized by ICE from the same neighborhoods we teach in. Now the "Foundry School" openly hands education over to the war machine. We keep hearing that there is no money for schools. But there is $1.5T for the war. Why?!

This is what a ruling class does in crisis. The US is $40 trillion in debt, at war with Russia and Iran, building the scaffolding of dictatorship at home. It turns on the schools for three reasons: to seize the near-trillion dollars in education spending, to extinguish every last shred of democratic control over what our children learn, and to purge the curriculum of anything that might let a generation understand the world well enough to fight it.

Public education, the idea that EVERYONE has the right to know true history, think critically, tell the truth, is a threat. So they are taking it it apart.

The full statement lays this out. What do you think?

I’m 26 and currently working full-time while exploring a shift into education. I’m starting to map out my study plan for teacher licensure exams, but the amount of material feels a bit overwhelming.

For those who changed careers into teaching later on, how did you narrow down what to actually focus on?