A teacher is one who makes himself [or herself] progressively unnecessary~Thomas Carruthers

Well… at least she got to stand by and watch one of our country’s worse Presidents in its history essentially fire her. If that’s any consolation?

TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off

As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she’d lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.

The $26 billion stimulus bill, designed to save 160,000 teacher and other government jobs across the nation, couldn’t save her position at Pickett Elementary.

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