"Bob Patton" wrote in message
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In my world, and probably in yours, people get ahead by working harder:
bigger bonuses, promotions, more perqs, etc. But not teachers. A talented
teacher who works harder gets tougher students.

Haven't teachers sort of done that to themselves tho?

Is ANY profession noble?

IMO not really.

My wife doesn't make much money.

I understand fully what you are trying to say Bob and I;m sure your wife is
most excellent at what she does. Is it tough to make a living on what some
professions, including teaching pay. It sure the hell is and I would not
want to be doing that right now but that's not the relevant point.

I suspect that few people other than teachers and police officers get such
a picture of the social issues that this country faces. There are people
in this community who don't eat every day because they can't afford it.
There are kids in my wife's classes whose mothers work full time for the
minimum wage and can't make ends meet for their families. There are kids
who go to bed at night having had nothing to eat all day except the free
lunch at school, and are about the be evicted from their homes. That is
absolutely true. And we penalize the kids for that!

Do you think teachers and police officers really have the picture? I would
submit that they don't. I was one of *those people* . My mother still has
not recovered. We don;t penalize the kids, some ****ing know it all amateur
psychiatrist nobilese teacher brands the kid a special needs or targets him
as a trouble maker. I'm glad your wife can influence so many lifes and taht
Snedeker's girls had nothing but great kids, my teachers sucked
(figureatively speaking of course) and were more concerned with their
contract negotiations that if I could find the solution to a quadratic
equation, primarily because most of them had no idea what one was. And do
not get me started on how we were treated by the local police.

Yeah. Get a bunch of technicians who're good test takers but haven't the
foggiest notion about the real world. Doesn't do any good to raise the bar
if not enough people want to get in.

If a math professor in college does not know math, then it will come out and
they will be cut. Do the same in elememtary school, then maybe johnny could
read.

Imagine a kid from the inner city of St Louis who is bused to an affluent
school in St Louis county.

Again I don;t have to imagine what that is like.

I know. I paid mine today too. I figure a good bit of it went to pay for
propaganda development to convince people that the Administration wants to
improve the country.

Amen