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DISMANTLING A BROKEN SYSTEM
Reflection Questions Now that you have read this chapter, please consider the following questions. After reflecting alone, and then reflecting with a team if you are doing a book study, consider what actions you can take today. Who can you contact? What information can you research? Whose voice needs to be heard? What work needs to be done, and how can you be a part of it?
• How much do you think the average teacher salary should be? (After deciding, consider a babysitter who charges $12 an hour to watch one child. At that rate, a teacher with a class of thirty students—who, of course, is doing exponentially more work than a babysitter—who teaches six hours a day for nine months would make just under $400,000.) • Considering the preparatory programs of other professions, such as lawyer, health-care provider, and accountant, how rigorous, exclusive, and time consuming should teacher preparatory programs be? • How effective was your teacher preparatory program? How could it have been better? • As a student, when was the first time you had a teacher of color? Have you ever had a Latinx teacher? A Black teacher? An Asian American or Pacific Islander teacher? What do your answers tell you about your educational experience?
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• If your child (or your niece, your nephew, or any other young person you care about) wanted to become a teacher, what would your honest response be, and why?
