Saturday, September 3, 2011

Democurmudgeon: Another Eulogy for the Teaching Profession.

Democurmudgeon: Another Eulogy for the Teaching Profession.:

Another Eulogy for the Teaching Profession.


In their successful bid to tear down societal progress made by the American people, the Republican Tea Party destroyed an entire profession, all because they were taxpayer supported "public" employees.

We are now relegated to stories like the following, in praise of those special teachers who turned us completely around. It's also true that those same teachers did little or nothing for our other classmates.

NY Times-Charles Blow’s Op-Ed, In Honor of Teachers

I wanted to celebrate a group that is often maligned: teachers. But how do we expect to entice the best and brightest to become teachers when we keep tearing the profession down? We take the people who so