"Unions have to be there to support great hardworking teachers.
Duncan said that Ravitch was "insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country who are proving her wrong every day".
Many hardworking teachers are quick to explain that few of their number would survive the continuous slog of teaching, marking and crowd-control without the regular breaks.
But for every bureaucrat living in a McMansion while doling out vouchers for people in leaky trailers, there are honest cops, hardworking teachers, gutsy firefighters and tireless enforcers of laws that protect our air, water and public lands.
Arne Duncan, who received an "F" for his policies in one of Ravitch's recent New York Review blog posts, told Jonathan Alter, of Bloomberg View, that Ravitch "is insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country, who are proving her wrong every day".
"Blaming the weather, the royal wedding and now scapegoating hardworking teachers, nurses and dinner ladies for the UK's economic woes is pretty poor from a government that has presided over record unemployment and the weakest economic recovery for a century".
The suit's targets aren't the violent mechanisms of an unjust system of segregation--they're hardworking teachers trapped in an education system designed to fail.
While the tweets reveal more annoyance than appreciation for their hardworking teachers ("ask you to take notes while they're showing a movie... why?"), the responses offer a candid look at classroom dynamics.
In certain respects, she looks like a regular, hardworking ballet teacher.
They are hardworking, respectable people like teachers, firemen, policemen and retirees who want affordable, quality, low-maintenance homes in neighborhoods with amenities like tennis courts, swimming pools and jogging trails.
Since his identity was revealed, Emwazi was described by teachers as "hardworking".
