I don’t want anybody to be poor. I’ve been poor. But we should remember that there is a cost to positioning schools solely as agents of economic mobility. We need to ask ourselves: When we force schools to try to solve the problem of poverty, what are we not allowing them to do?

One of the central jobs of everyone who works in education but is not a classroom teacher should be ensuring classroom teachers have enough (time, energy, knowledge, training, resources).

If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.