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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I'm thrilled that you could find the time to attack my post (and me personally (even though I'm not a teacher). Curious that you don't have an issue with DESS's generalizations of all teachers being lazy, but seemingly have a huge problem with my retort.
It wouldn't be that you have a problem with what I posted in another thread, would it?
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Absolutely not. I apologize for mis-referencing you as a teacher, it was my mistake.
While I don't agree that ALL teachers are lazy, I would say from my own fairly complete experience with both private and public education systems. That most teachers are a pretty entitled, whiny bunch. Why?
Probably the insidious affect of the unions which seem to think that, even though teachers at most have a BA in whatever, they constitute some sort of cultural elite. Not the case. Most teachers aren't all that bright and teach straight out of the curriculum. I know. I've sat in those classrooms, I've observed in those classrooms.
Maybe if there was an ounce of reward available for teachers on the basis of merit, instead of years spent in the system. Maybe if there was a way for more direct disciplinary actions towards the many teachers who use and abuse their position of authority over students as if it was a God-given right. Maybe if parents were allowed more input into the educational process.
Then, perhaps, you would see the public profile of teachers go up a tad.