The teacher, the server, and the grifters: fight for the living in Florida's dead, dishonest, corrupt model
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My family recently took a friend out to dinner at a Lakeland chain restaurant. As we were sitting down, I heard a customer say to her server: "One day, we'll live in a world where teachers won't have to wait tables as a second job." As you can imagine, that peaked my interest. When the server, a young woman, came over to our table, I asked if she was a teacher. She said she is. She had spent that day managing fourth graders and teaching them math at a low-income, traditional Polk elementary school, a school that is roughly equal parts black, white, and Hispanic.
The teacher, the server, and the grifters: fight for the living in Florida's dead, dishonest, corrupt model
The teacher, the server, and the grifters…
The teacher, the server, and the grifters: fight for the living in Florida's dead, dishonest, corrupt model
My family recently took a friend out to dinner at a Lakeland chain restaurant. As we were sitting down, I heard a customer say to her server: "One day, we'll live in a world where teachers won't have to wait tables as a second job." As you can imagine, that peaked my interest. When the server, a young woman, came over to our table, I asked if she was a teacher. She said she is. She had spent that day managing fourth graders and teaching them math at a low-income, traditional Polk elementary school, a school that is roughly equal parts black, white, and Hispanic.