Rewind
1947 “The struggle of the American schoolteacher to maintain an exterior of respectability on meager salaries has become a national scandal,” Newsweek reported. As living costs in postwar America steadily began to rise, attitudes toward teaching as a profession plummeted. Small steps were taken to fix the issue and, most of all, “avoid strikes,” which were seen as “injurious to the profession.” Today’s teachers, still embroiled in the same battle, have begun to pick up on the fact that strikes may not be so injurious after all.
O. C. SWEET