High Noon: A Teacher Resigns

An excerpt from letter of resignation by ex-Lakeland School District special-ed teacher Meghan Ridley (aka: Ima HotTeacher): “For someone like myself, who is overwhelmingly passionate about justice, fairness, and doing the right thing, watching the wrong thing happen all around me is extremely frustrating.  People who know me know that I openly speak about how broken public education is, which is why no one should be too surprised by my resignation.  Obviously, I could put my head down, close my mouth and return to my classroom, but at this point, the morally and ethically flawed structure of our system is just too nonsensical to me.  I’m done preparing my students with special needs for their grade level ISATs, I’m done being forced to focus on policies and deadlines before people, I’m done being bullied by politicians who couldn’t be more clueless about the system they govern.” Full letter or resignation here.

Question: I once quit a job without a back-up job because my paper (in 1976) at the time was jerking around a friend of mine (Doug Clark, now the SR main columnist). Have you ever quit a job on principle?