At the Huffington Post, English teacher Randy Turner champions “term limits for teachers” of somewhere between four and eight years, saying that veterans like himself are “burdened with experience.” He writes:
It took me a long time to realize that my dozen years in the classroom had completed my conversion from the wide-eyed 43-year-old innocent I was when I stepped in front of my first group of middle school students to the decaying fossil, a symbol of the erosion of public schools, that I am today.
And it took me a long time (O.K., at least a half dozen paragraphs) to realize that Turner’s essay is entirely satirical.