The Rude Pundit - A Tale of Two Nations and Their Future Teachers

[Wounded Bear]

1. Great read, as usual....

it stems from a basic belief of many in charge, and we say it all the time.

"Those that can, do. Those that don't, teach."

It sucks, because that is the mindset of far too many people who affect the education system in our country. The disrespect for teachers that seems to prevail in our country is astounding. We give out placebos like teacher of the year awards, but do we pay them a decent salary?

RWers like to bash unions, but never ask what conditions led to the teachers feeling they had to unionize in the first place.

We're losing generations of schoolkids, and it can be traced directly to that bullshit colloquialism above. The true fact is: Those that can are the best teachers.