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38. Thank you, I was going to make

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 09:56 PM

Dec 2012

similar points, but was afraid I'd let my irritation at this poster for starting shit against teachers when he obviously doesn't know shit about it get ahead of me. The last thing I wanted was for this to get bogged down in another "defense of teachers" discussion, but too many people, unfortunately, feel perfectly free to stick their noses in it and display their ignorance just because they had a few bad teachers at one time.

And I just read the story of the dying six-year-old whose dying teacher held him in her arms as they both died together, as well as the stories of the other teachers who sacrificed their lives protecting their students and am almost rendered speechless. There's much I could post about it, but I'm simply unable to do so at this point. Except to say to the teacher bashers to just go away from this thread and stay away, please.

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So I was called in to sub late this morning at our local rural elementary school [View all] liberalhistorian Dec 2012 OP

Beautifully said... CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2012 #1

The only overpaid, incompetent, lazy, "public leeches" I know of are those we call legislators. nt valerief Dec 2012 #2

98% of them & appointed positions, about 80% of the administrators, and about 40% of the rest. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #3

80% of the administrators and liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #5

Government employees. I spent many years working with almost every level and all Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #6

Well, that certainly isn't true liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #9

In regard to teachers I have only my own experience to draw upon, but that experience Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #20

I'm sorry for your experience, but that wasn't the point of this powerful essay Hekate Dec 2012 #34

Thank you, I was going to make liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #38

Apologies. Responded to the comment about legislators, didn't consider the context of your post. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #39

Indeed. But, to them, liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #4

I don't claim to know anything about teachers, except that my mother worked for valerief Dec 2012 #7

That's definitely true that teachers really are the liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #8

WOW! Carolina Dec 2012 #10

So many things mainstreetonce Dec 2012 #12

Oh, I don't think it's critical at all, I think liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #16

Schools get into situations mainstreetonce Dec 2012 #19

Again, you make some valid points and I don't liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #21

Substitute teaching pools have been traditionally a hiring pool duffyduff Dec 2012 #31

Bullshit, dearie. murielm99 Dec 2012 #33

Your post was a tearjerker pitbullgirl1965 Dec 2012 #11

k&r Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #13

Thank you so much. A most heartfelt K&R! n/t OneGrassRoot Dec 2012 #14

It would be great to start a thread with all of the Repugs who said all of the negative things about Dustlawyer Dec 2012 #15

Indeed, I'd like to see that also. And how many of us liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #17

beautiful heaven05 Dec 2012 #18

Well written, eloquent and so true! kmlisle Dec 2012 #22

I'm thinking of going back to finish my teaching license shenmue Dec 2012 #23

As horrific as this was tavalon Dec 2012 #26

A rare situation indeed but not so rare that this iemitsu Dec 2012 #29

I agree with all you say, especially the last line tavalon Dec 2012 #40

Save yourself the trouble duffyduff Dec 2012 #32

liberalhistorian Diclotican Dec 2012 #24

That was beautiful tavalon Dec 2012 #25

Poignant and pertinent...bless the teachers and Surya Gayatri Dec 2012 #27

Yes, that just liberalhistorian Dec 2012 #28

One of my kids asked me yesterday if I had heard about what happened in CT proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #30

Powerful and poignant Hekate Dec 2012 #35

I have three grandkids in public schools, thank you for what you do and for caring n/t Fumesucker Dec 2012 #36

Very powerful OP... Spazito Dec 2012 #37