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A few days earlier, she posted about her grad-school office-mate Jeff, “precisely the teacher that the talking ed-heads and columnists say we desperately need: a bright, well-prepared high school science specialist” who used to teach in Cincinnati:
“The plan was voted down in May of 2002, by 96% of Cincinnati teachers. Jeff believes he was one of only two teachers in his high school who voted for the plan. He says there were issues between union and district leaders and a mistrust of the new evaluation system, not enough time for teachers to absorb the ramifications of change—too much revolution all at once. Lots of reasons, all boiling down to the same thing: fear. Jeff began seriously looking, that spring, at graduate schools and new career paths, plotting an eventual escape from a system that suddenly felt unbending and stuck in the past.
