For fifteen years, Kali Fontanilla taught middle and high school students in California public schools. Then she abruptly left it behind. Why would a teacher who loves teaching quit her job? Her answer should alarm us all.
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Question: Why would a teacher who loves teaching quit her job?
Answer: When her job is no longer about teaching.
For fifteen years, I taught ESL (English as a Second Language) to middle and high school students. The last five years were at public schools in Salinas, California.
Salinas has suffered for a long time with a gang problem. Students are just as likely to fall victim to the temptations of gang life as they are to graduate from high school.
If that sounds like a challenge, it was exactly the challenge I was looking for.
It's why I became an educator: to help put kids, especially teenagers, on a good path in life.
And that's what I tried to do.
I taught my students that if they worked hard and accepted responsibility for their actions, they would succeed.
That their race didn't define them.
That they should respect the police.
That there are only two sexes.
That communism leads to misery.
But in the last few years, they were hearing something different in their other classes.
That their race was their destiny.
That the police were out to get them.
That their sexual identity is a personal choice.
That socialism is compassionate, communism isn't so bad, and capitalism is cruel.
Many of my students, especially the ones who had recently come to America, rejected these depressing lessons. They knew what they had fled. They wanted to embrace their new country an..
