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"David Snedeker" wrote in message
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So the bottom line was that you couldn't cut it, you couldn't or wouldn't
make a career in teaching? Yet, you get to trash it and beauregard as if
you
actually knew what the hell you were talking about?

I said I considered it, they wanted an education degree in that particular
school system. At the time I was doing post grad work in chemistry, and yes
I made a choice not to seek the edu degree.

Two of the things that account for allot
of what's wrong with this country is that most MEN do not know **** about
the health care system,

I have forgotten more about the health care system than you ever learned.

Teaching is possibly the most noble of the professions. My children were
well served by teachers, and most people can name teachers who had
considerable influence on their lives.

Oh bull****, if you're bleeding out from a chest wound, I'm sure you would
consider the trauma surgeon to be the most noble profession at the time, or
if your house was on fire....you get the idea. There are good teachers that
*inspire* kids but I'm sure your children were exposed to bad and medicore
teachers too, most of which they can't remember. No different than everyday
life and other people you come in contact with on a daily basis.

of the retired teachers I know are balanced and happy people, and most
take
comfort that their pensions are not in the hands of corrupt corporations
and
slimy politicians. And that is about as much justice as one should expect
in
this sad-assed country.

Oh come on, the country has issues, always has had issues We'll find a way
to survive Georgie and the sun will continue to rise in the east and set in
the west. As to your friends pensions, get a grip son, they were government
employees, and who do the governement employees actually work for? , hint,
it ain't the taxpayer.

"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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Well I don't have a clue what your point is.

I stand by my statement that from what I have seen in life and in my work,
teachers are an uncommonly dedicated lot, and seem to me to be generally
happy in retirement and uncommonly satisfied with how they have spent their
lives.

Wayne, I hope you are not holding up hospitals as bastions of efficiency and
cost effectiveness. And your comment about surgeons? . . . Noble would not
be my choice of adjectives. To me they are more like fighter pilots, same
kind of egos, reflexes etc. Definitely needed, interesting and talented . .
.. but noble? Sorry.

Dave
Dave

"David Snedeker" wrote in message
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Well I don't have a clue what your point is.

I stand by my statement that from what I have seen in life and in my work,
teachers are an uncommonly dedicated lot, and seem to me to be generally
happy in retirement and uncommonly satisfied with how they have spent
their
lives.

Teachers are not the only uncommonly dedicated lot David. You can put them
on a pedestal if you like, I won't. .

Wayne, I hope you are not holding up hospitals as bastions of efficiency
and
cost effectiveness.

No but I try everyday to make them that way. Like the education *system*,
they're a tough nut to bring to reality and make them work right.