Chaltain, S. (2018, December 18). The Monday After Thanksgiving. Retrieved February 13, 2019

If you want to really understand what it’s like to be a teacher in American schools today, spend part of today in a public school with high concentrations of students living in poverty. As any teacher will tell you in one of these schools – a growing number, thanks to the steady rise of the percentage of children living in dire conditions – the Monday after Thanksgiving is a particularly challenging (and important) day to be an educator.