"It's a professional slap in the face-someone telling you, after you've been working so hard at your craft for 30 years, that all of a sudden you are not qualified to do it. But the piece that did surprise me was the number of young teachers who told me they were getting out because they said that 'if they do this to us now, what else are they going to decide to pull when we get further into our careers and don't have any options?'

"They felt that now they have the option to go and do something else, to be treated with more respect, and to make more money at the same time."

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