Teachers Are Not Heroes
I Know What You're Thinking Don't get upset. I come from a long line of educators. I am floored by the demands of the profession. People have no fucking idea. What teachers do for all of us is staggering. Do you realize that the people teachers are trying to teach will soon be out on the STREET? What I'm talking about is the tone of some of the signs on some of the (long overdue) picket lines we've been seeing across the country in the last year or so. There's an embarrassing self-congratulatory aspect to the signs. Look, we all know what the broad strokes of the job are. If you entered the profession in the last 40 years and you weren't aware that Americans will REVILE you and pay you shit, then shame on you. Don't pat yourself on the back for making a "sacrifice". The only people who should be teaching are people who wouldn't be happy doing something else. Or people on their way to being administrators or blow-hard seminar givers. ...