Mayor de Blasio visits a classroom (photo: Rob Bennett/Mayor's Office)
Every work day for the past nine school years, I have taught and learned with young people from stressed economic backgrounds as a New York City public school teacher. Every day, I confront the realities of a system that puts short-term profits over children’s well-being and the long-term health of our city’s families.
I see scars on adolescents whose parents were forced into a bind that Mayor de Blasio has ...