No...not bats...but BATs.

Rarely do grassroots groups explode in numbers like the Bad Ass Teacher's group (BATs). The BATs quickly grew to a group of over 19,000 teachers across the country. The group mostly existed on Facebook, but it unified a large group of teachers who were tired of the conversation around public education. Actually, they were really angry about the conversation around public education.

Fordham professor Mark Naison and Priscilla Sanstead created the group. Priscilla works full-time coordinating the group. According to Mark,

"BATS has evolved into an action group where our state groups recommend actions, and our national action team decides whether to have a 911 alert and have the entire organization respond. Marla Kilfoyle and Melissa Tomlinson, our General Managers, coordinate those actions, with the advice of Priscilla, me and our 58 moderators.  We now have almost 250 volunteers running the organization."

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