A Teachable Moment

I’m off to the National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington D.C. I’ve been learning about pockets of discontent from around the nation over the failure of national education union leadership to articulate a strategy for confronting and overcoming the assault on public education from all corners of the political spectrum. I’ll be interested to see if the NEA leadership can leave the 9 to 10 thousand assembled union activists with any hope for the future, or whether, like too many union meetings I’ve attended lately, I’m left to feel like I want to shoot myself by the end, such is the feelings of hopelessness I been left with.