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Dying to Teach
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Dying to Teach

146 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Mary Eve Thorson taught middle school until she died on Thanksgiving Day, 2011, and her family believes the death was a direct response to years of workplace bullying by school administrators. Director Myra Richardson builds the film from interviews with Thorson's relatives, friends, and fellow teachers, who describe the pressure she was under and the state of the school itself. Their accounts trace a pattern familiar to labor advocates: a dedicated employee who kept raising concerns about how staff were treated and about conditions affecting students, and who found no one willing to address them. The film stays close to the people who knew her rather than reaching for outside experts, letting their memories carry the account of what led up to her death. It uses Thorson's case to open a wider question about how school districts handle complaints against administrators and what happens to teachers who keep pushing after being told to stop. There is no reenactment here, only the people left to explain what they saw.