Teachers give cold shoulder to Obama education chief

[proud2BlibKansan]

CNN) -- An open letter of appreciation to teachers from the Obama administration's chief education official has highlighted the administration's difficult relationship with the nation's teachers.

"I have a deep and genuine appreciation for the work you do. ... You deserve to be respected, valued, and supported. ... It is my goal to see that you are treated with the dignity we award to other professionals in society," reads the letter from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

But many teachers are unmoved.

"Respect? Value? Support? Not seeing much," said teacher and education commentator Sabrina Stevens Shupe, who writes about education on her blog, the Failing Schools Project.

"The gap between his words and his actions is too large to ignore," Stevens Shupe said in a widely circulated open letter responding to Duncan that echoes the sentiments of many in the teaching community.

more . . . http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/16/arne.duncan.letter/index.html

Sabrina's response: http://failingschools.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/a-letter-to-arne-duncan/

[Autumn]

1. I hope he freezes.

He deserves the cold shoulder from them.

[Kolesar]

2. Wow. That's a great letter (in your link)!

I learned a lot

[tinymontgomery]

3. The alot of the comments on the CNN site are

really out out of touch with teaching. One person on there just hates teachers.