CAC panel discusses film about teaching experience in Arizona
by Heather Smathers | Casa Grande Dispatch
When independent filmmaker Lisa Molomot began filming a documentary in January on the state of teaching in Arizona, little did she know the events of the spring semester would have a lasting impression on the subjects of her film and the families that surrounded them.
But that’s precisely what the #RedforEd movement did: galvanize teachers to force a change at the legislative level. And while pay for teachers increased after those movements, the stigma around being a teacher remains, she said.
Molomot’s 25-minute documentary, “Teaching in Arizona,” shadowed three Tucson-area teachers beginning in January and through the first day of school this fall. The three, while all at different places in their careers and family lives, all clamored for one thing: a need to be treated with respect from the community they serve and to get paid a living wage for the jobs they do, the film stresses.
