Author: David C. Bloomfield

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education.A few weeks after Election Day, a former student of mine, now a New York City public school teacher, reached out by email. She had just hosted a group of teacher friends at her apartment to think about and discuss “where we go from here as educators. One thing that kept coming up is the insistence from the city and their administrators alike that teachers remain “neutral” when talking to students about the election results and the upcoming Trump administration.”She called…