James Murphy has been part of Ontario’s Dufferin-Peel Catholic school district since he was five years old. After graduating and going through teacher’s college, he was hired in 1981 by his former high-school principal. Over the coming decades Murphy’s kids would matriculate through the district.
“Anything that needed to be done in my school, I would do,” Murphy told National Review.
The high-school biology teacher, now 60 with a thick shock of flowing white hair, fondly recalls playing guitar for students, serving as a liaison for the district’s Environmental Youth Alliance, being a union representative, and coaching football.
How can we be having these issues when we give the teachers all the money and more that they ask for?
We’re always told that extravagant raises and benefits are for the students.
