{"id":842,"date":"2011-08-02T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-08-02T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:23:40","slug":"peter-and-his-amazing-rifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Peter and His Amazing RIFs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As teacher layoffs have become a frustrating norm for several of my friends, I wanted to find a way to personalize for the public the mass layoffs that affect the teaching force.\u00a0Peter and I sat down for an afternoon trying to figure out a way to clearly explain the mess that has been his employment status over the past few years. The conversation took nearly four hours and spilled over dozens of post-it notes. The result is the above children’s book. Though it glosses over details and even more infuriating\u00a0bureaucratic\u00a0mistakes and lack of communication, the general difficulty with determining seniority (and thus ensuring a job) is pretty clear. The messy scrawl is all mine – Peter made all of the images using a program we used in our journalism intersession class<\/a>. (The slideshow can be slowed down by clicking on the options once it’s launched.)
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