Re: My true calling? Teaching. (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

All the Bay Area showings are sold out.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 16:06:42 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 22:12:05 +0000 (UTC)
 >  > From: Robert Reich <http://www.imcivicaction.org/~robert>
 >  > 
 >  >  Inequality Media Civic Action
 >  > 
 >  >  Dear Noelle,
 >  > 
 >  >  Please see below for a special announcement from Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse, 
 >  >  my longtime collaborator and Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic 
 >  >  Action.
 >  > 
 >  >  When I decided to retire from teaching two years ago, I wanted to do it 
 >  >  quietly. I preferred to make it about the students, not me.
 >  > 
 >  >  One of the people I told was my longtime collaborator and Coffee Klatch 
 >  >  podcast co-host, Heather Lofthouse. She wanted to do a video to document my 
 >  >  last class. “Maybe we can put it up on YouTube,” she said.
 >  > 
 >  >  Instead, she partnered with filmmaker Elliot Kirschner, and they ended up 
 >  >  making a feature-length documentary to show how education can triumph over 
 >  >  cynicism.
 >  > 
 >  >  I’ve been a teacher for most of the last 42 years. And I’ve never been 
 >  >  more sure of the power of — and need for — public education.
 >  > 
 >  >  I’m excited to see what Elliot and Heather have put together. I’m 
 >  >  thrilled and humbled that it will be in theaters this summer. I hope you 
 >  >  will have a chance to see it.
 >  > 
 >  >  Thanks,
 >  > 
 >  >  Robert Reich