So, if Mr. Kristof (or the Equity Project principal) is arguing that we should boost teachers' salaries, he'll get no objection from me (or, I suspect, most teachers).
Reading between the lines of this anthology, one suspects their teachers are suffering from an equally insidious anxiety of transmission.
She suspects her teachers have been "told to mark in green" adding: "It's a bit stupid really that anyone would think the colour of the pen makes that much difference".
She suspects that teachers are less likely to refer academically struggling students of color to special education because they might simply see those students' low performance as normal.
But "what I suspect is that teachers are paid so poorly," he said, "that they have to work in the summer". About 80 teachers signed up for the program last year, and if 100 Scholars draws 110 to 150 teachers this year, "that would be fine," Penders said.
Some teachers suspect that expanding the CCF is merely the latest ploy to militarise their classrooms.
And when the children are not talking about it, their teachers suspect, they are thinking about it.
We suspect that if teachers had been asked this question, the figure given in the headline would have shrunk dramatically".
I strongly suspect that when teachers face conditions such as pressure to meet arbitrary achievement goals, lack of planning time or little autonomy over curriculum, homework becomes an easy option to make up what could not be covered in class.
I never saw the "result," but I suspect that my teachers thought I was challenged in many ways, although later in life advanced particle physics and calculus have not been especially difficult for me.
This is the subject of The Faculty, in which the students suspect that their teachers are bloodthirsty extraterrestrials; of Teaching Mrs Tingle, in which irate students avenge themselves upon a reviled teacher; of Outside Providence, and of many other films aimed at a high-school audience.
