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Seeking respect, Wisconsin teachers go abroad

By the Journal Sentinel

CREATED Aug. 27, 2012

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  • Tammy Wolfe, a former Milwaukee Public Schools special-education teacher, hugs her mother, Claudia Wolfe (left), and twin sister, Tina Garland, last week at Mitchell International Airport. Wolfe is leaving her old job, friends and family to take on a new challenge as a teacher at an international school in Qatar. READ MORE Image by Gary Porter

As her former colleagues in Milwaukee Public Schools prepare for another school year in Wisconsin, Tammy Wolfe is joining a select group of educators headed to assignments abroad in international schools.