Rebecca Friedrichs: Reforming Education Through Truth and Empathy

Rebecca Friedrichs: Reforming Education Through Truth and Empathy
Rebecca Friedrichs walks with lead counsel Michael Carvin after arguments at the US Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 11, 2016. The high court is hearing arguments in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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Rebecca Friedrichs has a strong sense of justice. It’s what led her to decide to want to be a teacher at the age of 12. It’s also what informed her philosophy as a teacher for nearly three decades, and it’s why she made the difficult decision to stop teaching in order to rescue teachers across the nation from the culture of fear and isolation instituted by teachers unions.

“Teachers have been deceived. They’ve been told that the union is not the problem, the union is their savior, that the administrators and legislators and the school board are the problem, and the parents are the problem. And the union is going to save them,” Friedrichs said.

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