Frank McCourt

Here’s my soapbox:  ‘Why are you allowing the politicians to get away with murder? Why do the teachers have to teach another ten minutes every day when all they do is go home and correct papers all night? They got ten minutes on this contract and twenty minutes out of the last contract. So that’s another half an hour every day, and they get no credit for what they’re doing. And then the begrudgery in the negotiation, this confrontational attitude of politicians towards teachers as if the teachers weren’t the single most precious resource we have in the city.’ 

Frank McCourt