Margarette Allen was never ashamed to be a teacher. She still isn't -- for the most part.
"I'm proud of what I do," the Manitowoc, Wis. high school English teacher told The Huffington Post. "I do a very important job. I work hard to be very good at that job. I have never until recently felt, I don�??t want to say ashamed, but a little bit hesitant to tell people what I do. With the current political climate, we've been labeled at the state level."
This weekend, Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) signed into law a budget that scrapped $800 million in education funding following an earlier law that reduced collective bargaining rights to almost nothing. As Walker put pen to paper, Allen felt mixed emotions.
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