DaveGrohl has released a nearly nine-minute homage to educators entitled 'In Defense of Our Teachers'
"My mother was a public-school teacher. As a single mother of two, she tirelessly devoted her life to the service of others, both at home and at work," Grohl says, recalling how she rose before dawn to make sure he and his sister were ready to go, and graded papers long into the night, with hardly any me-time as she worked multiple jobs to augment her meager teacher's salary.
"Often bumping into her at the grocery store and erupting into a full recitation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, like a flash mob in the produce aisle," he says. "I can’t tell you how many of her former students I’ve met over the years who offer anecdotes from my mother’s classroom. Every kid should be so lucky to have that favorite teacher, the one who changes your life for the better.
Grohl knows the dedication it takes to tackle that "often-thankless" job -- pointing to the other rock-star teacher moms who raised Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Adam Levine, Josh Groban, and Haim -- and how those educators are now literally facing a life or death choice. Just like every teacher has a lesson plan, Grohl says they deserve the same from a government asking them to go back into an uncertain situation. "America’s teachers are caught in a trap, set by indecisive and conflicting sectors of failed leadership that have never been in their position and can’t possibly relate to the unique challenges they face," he says. "I wouldn’t trust the U.S.
"Teachers want to teach, not die, and we should support and protect them like the national treasures that they are," he says. "For without them, where would we be? May we show these tireless altruists a little altruism in return. I would for my favorite teacher. Wouldn’t you?"
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