Mick Hartley

Again in Tablet, Paul Berman has a moving piece, in the wake of the Florida shootings, on Heroes and Schoolteachers:

The most consistently and majestically heroic of the American professions is schoolteacher, though for some reason hardly anyone ever thinks to say so. The uniformed services train for physical action and bravery and sang-froid under fire, and schoolteachers do not, except in a small way. And yet, when gunmen and terrorists burst through the doors, the schoolteachers always seem to do the right thing, as if they had been in training all along, and it is moving to see.