Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/author/dave-stieber/)
Dave Stieber is a National Board Certified social studies teacher in his 13th year teaching in Chicago Public Schools. His partner teaches in CPS and his two children attend CPS.
The fear of black students and white savior ideology in educators and policymakers is keeping police in under-resourced schools despite their role in the school-to-prison pipeline and the well-known harm to students.
I would rather teach and be in the classroom but I’m ready to strike — for every single one of my students, for all my future students and my two sons in CPS.