Anyone contemplating going into teaching might be dissuaded after reading Alexandra Robbins’s latest work, The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession. That is not a disparagement of her book but rather a testament to its scope, accuracy and unflinching honesty. Never before have I read any work that so clearly depicts the current realities of teaching in America’s public schools, a subject I have followed closely as a recently retired teacher with 22 years of experience.

Robbins...dove deep into the lives of teachers and exposed the many flaws that have been hurting the teaching profession — even before the pandemic — and how it's gotten worse. The Teachers is engaging and impeccably researched, but it's also hard to read because it shows just how bad it's been for a while.

The Teachers is a call to action that as a nation, as communities, we owe our teachers much more than we are giving..

A deep dive.

Revealing.

Poignant.