Badass Teachers Association Shows a New Spirit of Defiance

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Some teachers finally seem to have had enough, and they are letting the world know it.

A closed group on Facebook called the Badass Teachers Association has added more than a thousand members a day since its launch less than a week ago, rapidly approaching the 7000 mark, showing no sign of letting up.

Mark Naison, a professor of African American studies at Fordham University in New York, founded the group with the help of two activists, Priscilla Sanstead and Marla Massey Kilfoyle. Sanstead is a parent activist in Oklahoma, and Kilfoyle is a teacher and parent who has been active in the Long Island Opt Out group.

Naison provided this definition of "badassness" on his blog yesterday:

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