Teacher Resigns During Kansas School Board Meeting With Powerful Speech | NowThis

’Teaching is like a bad marriage, you never get your needs met, but you stay in it for the kids.’ — This teacher resigned on the spot during a school board meeting with this impassioned message. » Subscribe to NowThis: » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: In US news and current events today, teacher Amanda Coffman resigned on the spot during a school board meeting and delivered a powerful message to her former students. Coffman is a former teacher at Indian Woods Middle School in Kansas. She says she resigned because she felt ‘silenced’ when Shawnee Mission School District issued teachers new 3-year contracts. Coffman says the contracts don’t address the concerns or needs that the teachers have fought for in the past. Listen to Amannda Coffman’s fiery resignation speech to the Kansas school board here. Here is how she plans to c